MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Anjana mean?
Añjanā is the mother of Hanuman in the Ramayana tradition. Hanuman's title Anjaneya expresses his descent from her.
Pronunciation
IAST: añjanā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
अंजना
Letter-by-letter: añjanā
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
അഞ്ജന
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Anjana in Indian usage
126,603 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 125,533 records (99.2%).
- Recorded as male: 1,070 records (0.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 290 |
| 1940s | 1,014 |
| 1950s | 3,491 |
| 1960s | 11,356 |
| 1970s | 28,837 |
| 1980s | 43,043 |
| 1990s | 38,414 |
| Other decades | 158 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 27,139 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 20,853 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 13,992 |
| Rajasthan | 11,979 |
| Bihar | 11,486 |
| Kerala | 9,628 |
| Jharkhand | 9,411 |
| Delhi | 4,960 |
| Karnataka | 4,400 |
| Haryana | 4,212 |
| Uttarakhand | 3,269 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 1,595 |
| Odisha | 1,123 |
| Maharashtra | 547 |
| Chandigarh | 385 |
| Meghalaya | 336 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 301 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 225 |
| Sikkim | 207 |
| Goa | 126 |
| Manipur | 106 |
| Other states | 323 |
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: अंजना ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
- Wiktionary: അഞ്ജന ↗ (opens in a new tab)
script
- Behind the Name: Anjana ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Wiktionary: अंजन ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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