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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Bagh

tiger

Bagh means “tiger”.

Origin language
Hindi
First letter
B
Historical records
85,594

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Bagh mean?

Bagh is the Indo-Aryan tiger word, corresponding to Sanskrit vyāghra. The aspirated gh in बाघ distinguishes it from Persian bāgh, garden.

Pronunciation

IAST: bāgha

Meaning themes

animals

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

बाघ

Letter-by-letter: bāgha

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Bagh in Indian usage

85,594 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: 42,901 records (50.1%).
  • Recorded as male: 42,693 records (49.9%).

By birth decade

Bagh: records by birth decade1930s: 2,9731930s1940s: 5,5621940s1950s: 9,1841950s1960s: 14,5371960s1970s: 20,3671970s1980s: 20,7701980s1990s: 11,4991990sOther decades: 702Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1930s2,973
1940s5,562
1950s9,184
1960s14,537
1970s20,367
1980s20,770
1990s11,499
Other decades702

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Maharashtra84,940
Rajasthan264
Punjab197
Other states193
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

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