MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Gangiya mean?
Gangiya is an affectionate vernacular derivative of Ganga. The river is also personified as a goddess, giving the household name both a river and a devotional connection.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गंगिया
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Gangiya in Indian usage
11,799 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 846 |
| 1940s | 1,561 |
| 1950s | 2,078 |
| 1960s | 3,197 |
| 1970s | 2,072 |
| 1980s | 1,224 |
| 1990s | 558 |
| Other decades | 263 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 7,780 |
| Jharkhand | 2,254 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,250 |
| Other states | 515 |
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, gaṅgā, p. 341,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.