MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Musaphir mean?
Musafir comes from Arabic musafir, written مسافر, a person travelling. Through Persian and Urdu the word became familiar in Hindi, where it also carries a poetic image of life's journey.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
मुसाफ़िर
Conventional spelling
Arabic
مسافر
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
मुसाफिर
9,904 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Musaphir in Indian usage
9,904 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling मुसाफिर.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 476 |
| 1940s | 1,382 |
| 1950s | 2,204 |
| 1960s | 2,539 |
| 1970s | 1,752 |
| 1980s | 1,121 |
| Other decades | 430 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 5,393 |
| Bihar | 4,378 |
| Jharkhand | 133 |
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