MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Maharaj mean?
The Sanskrit title mahārāja joins mahā, great, to rāja, king. It denotes a supreme sovereign and is also used as a respectful form of address in Hindi.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
महाराज
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Maharaj in Indian usage
28,375 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (81.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 5,128 records (18.1%).
- Recorded as male: 23,247 records (81.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 848 |
| 1940s | 2,238 |
| 1950s | 3,824 |
| 1960s | 5,469 |
| 1970s | 6,171 |
| 1980s | 6,274 |
| 1990s | 3,358 |
| Other decades | 193 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 17,057 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 3,784 |
| Rajasthan | 1,770 |
| Bihar | 1,731 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,019 |
| Gujarat | 906 |
| Maharashtra | 780 |
| Jharkhand | 720 |
| Haryana | 361 |
| Punjab | 124 |
| Other states | 123 |
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, mahārāja, p. 799,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.