MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Ganga mean?
Gaṅgā is the river's Sanskrit name and a river-goddess name, with the geographical and mythological meanings closely joined. Bhagiratha's story explains the river's traditional descent to earth. Shiva receives the descending river in his hair to soften her fall to earth.
Pronunciation
IAST: gaṅgā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गंगा
Letter-by-letter: gaṅgā
Conventional spelling
Bengali
গংগা
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Ganga in Indian usage
355,819 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 214,569 records (60.3%).
- Recorded as male: 141,250 records (39.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 4,070 |
| 1930s | 17,328 |
| 1940s | 39,766 |
| 1950s | 57,114 |
| 1960s | 71,384 |
| 1970s | 63,092 |
| 1980s | 61,508 |
| 1990s | 41,240 |
| Other decades | 317 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 98,478 |
| Rajasthan | 81,732 |
| Bihar | 46,191 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 37,969 |
| Uttarakhand | 21,179 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 21,119 |
| Jharkhand | 12,361 |
| Haryana | 11,394 |
| Delhi | 9,556 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 4,628 |
| Kerala | 2,530 |
| Karnataka | 2,294 |
| Sikkim | 1,573 |
| Assam | 1,425 |
| Maharashtra | 517 |
| Chandigarh | 467 |
| Goa | 409 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 334 |
| Manipur | 330 |
| Puducherry | 295 |
| Odisha | 294 |
| Meghalaya | 293 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 169 |
| Nagaland | 136 |
| Other states | 146 |
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
- Wiktionary: गंगा ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Behind the Name: Ganga ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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