MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Jaba mean?
Jaba is the Bengali name of the hibiscus flower. Red hibiscus is a characteristic offering to Kali in Bengali worship, giving the flower name a cultural association.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Bengali
জবা
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
जबा
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Jaba in Indian usage
5,292 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (97.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 5,179 records (97.9%).
- Recorded as male: 113 records (2.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 331 |
| 1960s | 699 |
| 1970s | 1,223 |
| 1980s | 1,564 |
| 1990s | 1,292 |
| Other decades | 183 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Jharkhand | 1,647 |
| Assam | 1,601 |
| Tripura | 967 |
| Odisha | 845 |
| Other states | 232 |
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, japā, p. 412,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.