MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Balaraj mean?
Balaraj combines bal, strength, with rāj, king or rule. The Punjabi compound gives a royal form to the idea of power and is also familiar in Hindi naming.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बलराज
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਬਲਰਾਜ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Balaraj in Indian usage
29,716 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (95.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,255 records (4.2%).
- Recorded as male: 28,461 records (95.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 889 |
| 1950s | 2,590 |
| 1960s | 5,764 |
| 1970s | 7,727 |
| 1980s | 7,828 |
| 1990s | 4,606 |
| Other decades | 312 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Punjab | 11,041 |
| Haryana | 9,943 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,732 |
| Rajasthan | 1,623 |
| Delhi | 861 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 764 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 337 |
| Uttarakhand | 305 |
| Bihar | 276 |
| Kerala | 228 |
| Jharkhand | 168 |
| Puducherry | 154 |
| Chandigarh | 114 |
| Other states | 170 |
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, bala, p. 722,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, rājan, p. 874,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: ਬਲ ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.