MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Navajit mean?
Punjabi nav, new or fresh, combines with jit, winning, in Navajit. The final element continues Sanskrit jit, a verbal adjective used at the end of compounds to describe a conqueror or winner.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Gurmukhi
ਨਵਜੀਤ
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
नवजीत
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Navajit in Indian usage
5,045 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 2,487 records (49.3%).
- Recorded as male: 2,558 records (50.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1970s | 651 |
| 1980s | 2,045 |
| 1990s | 2,110 |
| Other decades | 239 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Punjab | 3,294 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 429 |
| Haryana | 418 |
| Bihar | 349 |
| Rajasthan | 170 |
| Other states | 385 |
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, nava, p. 530,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, jit, p. 420,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.