MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Joga mean?
The name Joga belongs to the northern vernacular word family of jog, from Sanskrit yoga. This word can refer to spiritual practice and the discipline of a yogi.
Meaning themes
spirituality
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
जोगा
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਜੋਗਾ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Joga in Indian usage
20,441 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (91.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,667 records (8.2%).
- Recorded as male: 18,774 records (91.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,634 |
| 1950s | 3,284 |
| 1960s | 4,476 |
| 1970s | 4,407 |
| 1980s | 3,862 |
| 1990s | 2,164 |
| Other decades | 614 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Punjab | 9,011 |
| Rajasthan | 4,265 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,668 |
| Haryana | 1,390 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 980 |
| Jharkhand | 913 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 706 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 618 |
| Bihar | 359 |
| Delhi | 177 |
| Maharashtra | 155 |
| Other states | 199 |
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, yoga, p. 856,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.