MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Dhanai mean?
Dhanai is a familiar North Indian name formed around dhan, “wealth”. The root can refer broadly to valued possessions or prosperity, beyond money alone.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
धनई
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Dhanai in Indian usage
2,246 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling धनई.
Mostly recorded for boys (94.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 118 records (5.3%).
- Recorded as male: 2,128 records (94.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 312 |
| 1950s | 496 |
| 1960s | 493 |
| 1970s | 450 |
| 1980s | 301 |
| Other decades | 194 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,801 |
| Bihar | 445 |
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, dhana, p. 508,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.