MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Gunja mean?
Sanskrit guñjā denotes humming. It also names the gunja plant with red-and-black seeds. Those seeds were traditionally used as small weights for precious materials.
Pronunciation
IAST: guñjā
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गुंजा
Letter-by-letter: guñjā
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
गूंजा
Letter-by-letter: gūṃjā
3,329 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Gunja in Indian usage
25,511 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (98.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 25,082 records (98.3%).
- Recorded as male: 429 records (1.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 120 |
| 1950s | 187 |
| 1960s | 398 |
| 1970s | 1,665 |
| 1980s | 12,432 |
| 1990s | 10,596 |
| Other decades | 113 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 14,103 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 6,725 |
| Jharkhand | 2,453 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,892 |
| Rajasthan | 101 |
| Other states | 237 |
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, guñjā, p. 356,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.