MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Jagar mean?
Jagar belongs to the northern vocabulary of waking and keeping vigil. In Himalayan devotional use, jagar also names a sung ritual of invocation, giving the word a cultural meaning beyond ordinary wakefulness.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Gurmukhi
ਜਾਗਰ
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
जागर
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Jagar in Indian usage
3,274 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (96.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 121 records (3.7%).
- Recorded as male: 3,153 records (96.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 324 |
| 1940s | 675 |
| 1950s | 644 |
| 1960s | 743 |
| 1970s | 478 |
| 1980s | 216 |
| Other decades | 194 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Punjab | 1,547 |
| Bihar | 591 |
| Haryana | 426 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 256 |
| Odisha | 124 |
| Other states | 330 |
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, jāgara, p. 417,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.