MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bhagiya mean?
Bhagiya is an eastern Hindi feminine form in the bhag or bhagya group of fortune names. Its regional ending makes the abstract idea of good fortune into an affectionate personal form.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
भगिया
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bhagiya in Indian usage
7,648 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (98.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 7,502 records (98.1%).
- Recorded as male: 146 records (1.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 189 |
| 1930s | 728 |
| 1940s | 1,265 |
| 1950s | 1,573 |
| 1960s | 1,991 |
| 1970s | 1,221 |
| 1980s | 524 |
| Other decades | 157 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 3,694 |
| Jharkhand | 2,541 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 848 |
| Other states | 565 |
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, bhāgya, p. 752,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.