MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Braj mean?
Braj is the vernacular form of Vraja, the region of Krishna's childhood stories. The older Sanskrit noun also denotes a cattle enclosure or pastoral settlement, matching the region's cowherd imagery.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
ब्रज
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Braj in Indian usage
30,544 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (90%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 3,059 records (10%).
- Recorded as male: 27,485 records (90%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 880 |
| 1940s | 2,489 |
| 1950s | 4,577 |
| 1960s | 6,545 |
| 1970s | 6,943 |
| 1980s | 5,018 |
| 1990s | 3,931 |
| Other decades | 161 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 12,029 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 5,762 |
| Bihar | 5,660 |
| Rajasthan | 2,548 |
| Haryana | 1,645 |
| Jharkhand | 1,618 |
| Uttarakhand | 415 |
| Assam | 300 |
| Tripura | 258 |
| Delhi | 146 |
| Other states | 163 |
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, vraja, p. 1042,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.