MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Babaji mean?
Babaji combines bābā, father or elder, with the respectful suffix jī. The address is also used for teachers and ascetics, giving the personal name a history as an honorific.
Meaning themes
respect
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बाबाजी
Conventional spelling
Odia
ବାବାଜୀ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Babaji in Indian usage
18,343 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (88.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 2,119 records (11.6%).
- Recorded as male: 16,224 records (88.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,016 |
| 1940s | 1,773 |
| 1950s | 2,604 |
| 1960s | 2,294 |
| 1970s | 1,534 |
| 1980s | 745 |
| 1990s | 8,173 |
| Other decades | 204 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 17,602 |
| Bihar | 348 |
| Maharashtra | 138 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 119 |
| Other states | 136 |
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