MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Aftab mean?
Āftāb is the Persian word for the sun. Urdu poetry uses it as an image of light, splendour and warmth.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
आफ़ताब
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
आफताब
35,490 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Aftab in Indian usage
39,604 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (96.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,210 records (3.1%).
- Recorded as male: 38,394 records (96.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 435 |
| 1950s | 1,390 |
| 1960s | 3,851 |
| 1970s | 7,602 |
| 1980s | 14,732 |
| 1990s | 11,428 |
| Other decades | 166 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 22,902 |
| Bihar | 8,921 |
| Jharkhand | 2,590 |
| Delhi | 1,531 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,079 |
| Rajasthan | 764 |
| Uttarakhand | 538 |
| Assam | 476 |
| Maharashtra | 263 |
| Haryana | 221 |
| Other states | 319 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Wiktionary: आफ़ताब ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.