MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bhagy mean?
Bhagya is a Sanskrit noun for fortune or one's allotted lot. Its favourable sense of good fortune makes it a familiar abstract personal name in several Indian languages.
Pronunciation
IAST: bhāgya
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
भाग्य
Letter-by-letter: bhāgya
Conventional spelling
Bengali
ভাগ্য
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bhagy in Indian usage
8,249 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: 4,964 records (60.2%).
- Recorded as male: 3,285 records (39.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 375 |
| 1950s | 741 |
| 1960s | 1,263 |
| 1970s | 1,593 |
| 1980s | 1,616 |
| 1990s | 2,492 |
| Other decades | 169 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 2,970 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,822 |
| Assam | 1,102 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 809 |
| Rajasthan | 565 |
| Jharkhand | 497 |
| Tripura | 238 |
| Haryana | 106 |
| Other states | 140 |
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.