MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Janata mean?
Sanskrit janata is a collective formation from jana, a person or people. Hindi uses the word for the public, giving the feminine name a social rather than individual image.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Odia
ଜନତା
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
जनता
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Janata in Indian usage
9,067 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (87.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 7,920 records (87.3%).
- Recorded as male: 1,147 records (12.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 483 |
| 1960s | 1,201 |
| 1970s | 2,248 |
| 1980s | 2,850 |
| 1990s | 2,072 |
| Other decades | 213 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 3,438 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,180 |
| Bihar | 1,172 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 938 |
| Odisha | 699 |
| Jharkhand | 684 |
| Assam | 394 |
| Haryana | 267 |
| Tripura | 127 |
| Other states | 168 |
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, janatā, p. 410,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.