MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bhagi mean?
Bhagi can continue the Sanskrit adjective bhāgin, one who shares in or possesses something. In northern name usage, the related word bhāg, fortune, adds the familiar sense fortunate.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
भागी
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bhagi in Indian usage
7,207 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: 3,473 records (48.2%).
- Recorded as male: 3,734 records (51.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 516 |
| 1940s | 1,014 |
| 1950s | 1,342 |
| 1960s | 1,679 |
| 1970s | 1,294 |
| 1980s | 847 |
| 1990s | 385 |
| Other decades | 130 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 1,748 |
| Haryana | 1,177 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,033 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,025 |
| Jharkhand | 602 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 564 |
| Bihar | 525 |
| Punjab | 224 |
| Uttarakhand | 131 |
| Other states | 178 |
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, bhāgin, p. 751,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.