MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Janaka mean?
Janaka is a feminine vernacular name in the Janaki group. Janaki names Sita as the daughter of King Janaka in the Ramayana.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
जनका
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Janaka in Indian usage
5,425 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (94.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 5,143 records (94.8%).
- Recorded as male: 282 records (5.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 392 |
| 1940s | 830 |
| 1950s | 1,026 |
| 1960s | 1,435 |
| 1970s | 983 |
| 1980s | 511 |
| Other decades | 248 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,694 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,114 |
| Bihar | 156 |
| Rajasthan | 107 |
| Punjab | 100 |
| Other states | 254 |
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, jānakī, p. 418,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, sītā, p. 1218,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.