MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bhajani mean?
Bhajani belongs to the vocabulary of bhajan, devotional singing or worship. Its ending can turn the activity into a descriptive feminine name and also occurs in words for devotional song forms.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
भजनी
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bhajani in Indian usage
2,374 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: 1,649 records (69.5%).
- Recorded as male: 725 records (30.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 165 |
| 1940s | 369 |
| 1950s | 492 |
| 1960s | 596 |
| 1970s | 384 |
| 1980s | 227 |
| Other decades | 141 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 706 |
| Punjab | 283 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 257 |
| Haryana | 217 |
| Bihar | 183 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 155 |
| Uttarakhand | 155 |
| Odisha | 115 |
| Maharashtra | 102 |
| Other states | 201 |
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.