MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Ajaib mean?
Ajaib comes from Arabic ʿajāʾib, wonders or marvels, through Urdu and Punjabi. It is a plural noun, giving the name a sense of many remarkable things.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
अजैब
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਅਜੈਬ
Conventional spelling
Arabic
عجائب
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Ajaib in Indian usage
14,405 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (90.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,319 records (9.2%).
- Recorded as male: 13,086 records (90.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 911 |
| 1940s | 2,576 |
| 1950s | 3,124 |
| 1960s | 3,744 |
| 1970s | 2,391 |
| 1980s | 1,204 |
| 1990s | 292 |
| Other decades | 163 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Punjab | 13,289 |
| Haryana | 943 |
| Other states | 173 |
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