MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Hanja mean?
Hanja corresponds to Sanskrit hanja, a female attendant, also explained as a girl. Sanskrit drama uses its vocative form as a way of addressing a woman.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
हंजा
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Hanja in Indian usage
10,171 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (95.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 9,668 records (95.1%).
- Recorded as male: 503 records (4.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 975 |
| 1940s | 1,565 |
| 1950s | 1,806 |
| 1960s | 2,047 |
| 1970s | 1,202 |
| 1980s | 1,348 |
| 1990s | 935 |
| Other decades | 293 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 9,820 |
| Other states | 351 |
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, hañjā, p. 1286,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.