MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Giraja mean?
The Hindi name Girja, also represented by Giraja, comes from Sanskrit Girijā, born of the mountain. As a name it refers to Parvati; the Hindi church word girjā has a separate history.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गिरजा
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
गिर्जा
Letter-by-letter: girjā
5,703 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Giraja in Indian usage
128,963 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (82.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 105,869 records (82.1%).
- Recorded as male: 23,094 records (17.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 4,402 |
| 1940s | 11,820 |
| 1950s | 20,188 |
| 1960s | 33,033 |
| 1970s | 28,095 |
| 1980s | 20,133 |
| 1990s | 10,253 |
| Other decades | 1,039 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 47,393 |
| Bihar | 42,753 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 27,275 |
| Jharkhand | 6,294 |
| Rajasthan | 3,272 |
| Haryana | 430 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 411 |
| Uttarakhand | 378 |
| Punjab | 361 |
| Maharashtra | 155 |
| Other states | 241 |
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, girijā, p. 355,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.