MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bhajan mean?
Sharing, serving and worshipping are senses of Sanskrit bhaj, from which bhajana is formed. Hindi bhajan commonly denotes a devotional song, the sense most familiar in personal-name interpretation.
Pronunciation
IAST: bhajana
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
भजन
Letter-by-letter: bhajana
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bhajan in Indian usage
61,317 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: 18,934 records (30.9%).
- Recorded as male: 42,383 records (69.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 3,481 |
| 1940s | 9,746 |
| 1950s | 12,134 |
| 1960s | 12,972 |
| 1970s | 9,839 |
| 1980s | 8,216 |
| 1990s | 4,239 |
| Other decades | 690 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Punjab | 27,477 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 7,773 |
| Haryana | 6,606 |
| Rajasthan | 4,978 |
| Bihar | 3,536 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 3,457 |
| Uttarakhand | 2,217 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,457 |
| Tripura | 1,137 |
| Delhi | 781 |
| Jharkhand | 706 |
| Assam | 650 |
| Maharashtra | 327 |
| Other states | 215 |
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, bhajana, p. 744,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.