MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Dharmraj mean?
Dharma joins rāja to describe a ruler associated with justice and right conduct. Dharmraj is an established epithet of both Yama and Yudhishthira.
Pronunciation
IAST: dharmarāja
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
धर्मराज
Letter-by-letter: dharmarāja
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Dharmraj in Indian usage
52,323 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 373 records (0.7%).
- Recorded as male: 51,950 records (99.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,382 |
| 1950s | 3,175 |
| 1960s | 6,185 |
| 1970s | 9,436 |
| 1980s | 17,071 |
| 1990s | 14,560 |
| Other decades | 514 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 32,051 |
| Rajasthan | 9,481 |
| Bihar | 4,643 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 4,468 |
| Jharkhand | 676 |
| Haryana | 503 |
| Maharashtra | 282 |
| Other states | 219 |
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, dharmarāja, p. 511,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.