MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Anurag mean?
Sanskrit rañj links colouring with emotional attachment in the formation anurāga. The prefix anu accompanies a word whose colour sense developed into affection or love.
Pronunciation
IAST: anurāga
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
अनुराग
Letter-by-letter: anurāga
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Anurag in Indian usage
85,109 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,379 records (1.6%).
- Recorded as male: 83,730 records (98.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 163 |
| 1950s | 444 |
| 1960s | 2,245 |
| 1970s | 10,799 |
| 1980s | 29,218 |
| 1990s | 42,093 |
| Other decades | 147 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 49,758 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 10,145 |
| Bihar | 7,801 |
| Rajasthan | 4,332 |
| Delhi | 2,868 |
| Haryana | 2,683 |
| Uttarakhand | 2,181 |
| Jharkhand | 2,093 |
| Kerala | 1,259 |
| Punjab | 835 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 493 |
| Chandigarh | 190 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 129 |
| Other states | 342 |
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, anurāga, p. 37,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.