MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Navab mean?
Navab uses the title nawāb, which developed from the Arabic word for deputies through Persian administration. In India it came to denote a governor or ruler and also entered personal naming.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
नवाब
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Navab in Indian usage
31,482 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (93.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,908 records (6.1%).
- Recorded as male: 29,574 records (93.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 764 |
| 1940s | 2,192 |
| 1950s | 3,948 |
| 1960s | 6,699 |
| 1970s | 7,604 |
| 1980s | 6,713 |
| 1990s | 3,396 |
| Other decades | 166 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 19,178 |
| Rajasthan | 2,679 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,506 |
| Haryana | 1,812 |
| Maharashtra | 1,502 |
| Bihar | 1,205 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,157 |
| Punjab | 573 |
| Gujarat | 391 |
| Other states | 479 |
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