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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Manju

lovely; pleasing

Manju means “lovely; pleasing”.

Origin language
Sanskrit
First letter
M
Historical records
566,506

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Manju mean?

Mañju is used for things pleasing to the senses, especially a sweet voice or sound, and occurs in the name Manjula. The Sanskrit adjective can describe pleasant speech or a sweet sound as well as beauty.

Pronunciation

IAST: mañju

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

मंजु

Letter-by-letter: mañju

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Manju in Indian usage

566,506 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for girls (98.8%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 559,668 records (98.8%).
  • Recorded as male: 6,838 records (1.2%).

By birth decade

Manju: records by birth decade1920s: 5651920s1930s: 7491930s1940s: 3,7981940s1950s: 21,2341950s1960s: 87,7161960s1970s: 166,8391970s1980s: 193,4291980s1990s: 92,0721990sOther decades: 104Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1920s565
1930s749
1940s3,798
1950s21,234
1960s87,716
1970s166,839
1980s193,429
1990s92,072
Other decades104

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Bihar158,806
Uttar Pradesh114,186
Rajasthan69,906
Delhi47,122
Jharkhand45,677
Madhya Pradesh43,360
Haryana40,115
Kerala26,366
Uttarakhand9,434
Andhra Pradesh2,636
Odisha1,863
Himachal Pradesh1,726
Karnataka1,151
Chandigarh832
Arunachal Pradesh556
Puducherry409
Meghalaya402
Sikkim330
Goa329
Andaman and Nicobar Islands326
Maharashtra214
Nagaland171
Manipur161
Assam118
Other states310
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, mañju, p. 774,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  3. Wiktionary: मञ्जु ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    meaning

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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