MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Lajja mean?
Lajja is the Sanskrit noun for modesty, bashfulness or shame. Literary tradition personifies Lajja as the wife of Dharma and mother of Vinaya. The word also names the sensitive plant, whose leaves fold when touched.
Pronunciation
IAST: lajjā
Meaning themes
modesty
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
लज्जा
Letter-by-letter: lajjā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Lajja in Indian usage
17,607 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (85.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 15,089 records (85.7%).
- Recorded as male: 2,518 records (14.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,240 |
| 1950s | 2,923 |
| 1960s | 5,224 |
| 1970s | 3,993 |
| 1980s | 2,798 |
| 1990s | 1,030 |
| Other decades | 399 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 10,585 |
| Haryana | 2,229 |
| Rajasthan | 2,043 |
| Delhi | 865 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 753 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 740 |
| Other states | 392 |
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, lajjā, p. 895,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.