MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Gajraj mean?
Gaja denotes an elephant and rāja a king. The complete Sanskrit compound also describes an elephant of exceptional stature.
Pronunciation
IAST: gajarāja
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गजराज
Letter-by-letter: gajarāja
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Gajraj in Indian usage
42,182 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (97.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 879 records (2.1%).
- Recorded as male: 41,303 records (97.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 888 |
| 1940s | 3,047 |
| 1950s | 5,658 |
| 1960s | 8,689 |
| 1970s | 9,247 |
| 1980s | 9,059 |
| 1990s | 5,462 |
| Other decades | 132 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 19,043 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 14,135 |
| Rajasthan | 5,974 |
| Haryana | 2,597 |
| Uttarakhand | 178 |
| Other states | 255 |
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, gajarāja, p. 342,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.