MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Lekharaj mean?
Lekharaj combines lekh, writing or a written record, with rāj, king. The compound gives a royal metaphor to literacy and the written word, a familiar pattern in north Indian personal naming.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
लेखराज
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Lekharaj in Indian usage
28,127 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 118 records (0.4%).
- Recorded as male: 28,009 records (99.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,280 |
| 1950s | 2,454 |
| 1960s | 4,242 |
| 1970s | 5,156 |
| 1980s | 7,337 |
| 1990s | 7,119 |
| Other decades | 539 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 12,623 |
| Rajasthan | 10,297 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,789 |
| Haryana | 1,035 |
| Uttarakhand | 543 |
| Punjab | 258 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 201 |
| Jharkhand | 188 |
| Other states | 193 |
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, lekha, p. 901,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, rājan, p. 874,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.