MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Anuja mean?
Anuja is the feminine form of Sanskrit anuja, born afterwards or younger. In family vocabulary it denotes a younger sister, making birth order the name's central idea.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
अनुजा
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Anuja in Indian usage
9,426 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (95.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 8,993 records (95.4%).
- Recorded as male: 433 records (4.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 526 |
| 1970s | 1,413 |
| 1980s | 3,466 |
| 1990s | 3,884 |
| Other decades | 137 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 2,181 |
| Bihar | 1,534 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,384 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 767 |
| Goa | 502 |
| Rajasthan | 488 |
| Jharkhand | 373 |
| Odisha | 371 |
| Haryana | 330 |
| Delhi | 271 |
| Uttarakhand | 249 |
| Karnataka | 236 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 220 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 166 |
| Other states | 354 |
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
- Monier-Williams, anuja, p. 32,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, anujā, p. 32,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.