MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Maharaja mean?
Maharaja is a vernacular form of the title maharaja, great ruler. Its elements maha and raja express a royal title that also occurs in personal naming.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
महराजा
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Maharaja in Indian usage
1,821 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (89.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,634 records (89.7%).
- Recorded as male: 187 records (10.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 316 |
| 1940s | 522 |
| 1950s | 405 |
| 1960s | 312 |
| 1970s | 115 |
| Other decades | 151 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Other states | 1,821 |
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.