MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Maharani mean?
Mahārānī is a Hindi royal title built on rānī, queen. Its older Sanskrit counterpart mahārājñī denotes a reigning queen. Sanskrit also records Maharajni as a name of Durga.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
महारानी
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
महरानी
Letter-by-letter: maharānī
5,133 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Maharani in Indian usage
25,972 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (97.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 25,244 records (97.2%).
- Recorded as male: 728 records (2.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,928 |
| 1940s | 3,721 |
| 1950s | 4,748 |
| 1960s | 5,882 |
| 1970s | 4,392 |
| 1980s | 3,101 |
| 1990s | 1,681 |
| Other decades | 519 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 15,499 |
| Bihar | 4,934 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,529 |
| Jharkhand | 1,724 |
| Rajasthan | 326 |
| Tripura | 291 |
| Odisha | 263 |
| Uttarakhand | 168 |
| Haryana | 137 |
| Other states | 101 |
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, mahārājñī, p. 799,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.