MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Apharoj mean?
Persian afrōz, illuminating, supplies Afroz and the vernacular form Apharoj. It also appears in compounds such as Dilafroz, where it expresses lighting up the heart.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
अफरोज
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Apharoj in Indian usage
64,055 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 37,441 records (58.5%).
- Recorded as male: 26,614 records (41.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 608 |
| 1950s | 2,409 |
| 1960s | 7,320 |
| 1970s | 14,631 |
| 1980s | 23,023 |
| 1990s | 15,855 |
| Other decades | 209 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 37,973 |
| Bihar | 12,060 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 5,472 |
| Jharkhand | 2,925 |
| Rajasthan | 2,118 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,581 |
| Maharashtra | 1,445 |
| Haryana | 359 |
| Other states | 122 |
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