MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Giriraj mean?
Giriraj joins giri, mountain, with rāj, king. The title is applied to the Himalaya and, in Krishna devotion, to Govardhan hill.
Meaning themes
mountainkrishna
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गिरिराज
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
गिरीराज
Letter-by-letter: girīrāja
5,639 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Giriraj in Indian usage
19,695 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (96.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 744 records (3.8%).
- Recorded as male: 18,951 records (96.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 469 |
| 1950s | 1,240 |
| 1960s | 3,077 |
| 1970s | 4,538 |
| 1980s | 6,033 |
| 1990s | 4,180 |
| Other decades | 158 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 13,065 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 3,246 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,524 |
| Haryana | 405 |
| Bihar | 169 |
| Uttarakhand | 149 |
| Other states | 137 |
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, giri, p. 355,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, girirāj, p. 355,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.