MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Durjan mean?
Durjana is a Sanskrit word for a wicked or ill-disposed person, formed with the negative prefix dur and jana, person. Its inherited use as a personal name belongs to older naming practices that sometimes employ unflattering words.
Pronunciation
IAST: durjana
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
दुर्जन
Letter-by-letter: durjana
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Durjan in Indian usage
8,689 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 116 records (1.3%).
- Recorded as male: 8,573 records (98.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,046 |
| 1950s | 1,331 |
| 1960s | 1,748 |
| 1970s | 1,618 |
| 1980s | 1,504 |
| 1990s | 991 |
| Other decades | 451 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,756 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 3,334 |
| Rajasthan | 962 |
| Jharkhand | 304 |
| Bihar | 150 |
| Other states | 183 |
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, durjana, p. 485,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.