MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Navajot mean?
Navajot combines nav, new, with jot, light. Punjabi devotional language also uses jot for spiritual light, adding a religious literary association to the ordinary image of brightness.
Meaning themes
lightrenewal
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
नवजोत
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਨਵਜੋਤ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Navajot in Indian usage
19,380 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: 10,413 records (53.7%).
- Recorded as male: 8,967 records (46.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1970s | 877 |
| 1980s | 5,653 |
| 1990s | 12,551 |
| Other decades | 299 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Punjab | 15,925 |
| Haryana | 1,413 |
| Rajasthan | 578 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 473 |
| Chandigarh | 262 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 258 |
| Uttarakhand | 184 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 151 |
| Other states | 136 |
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, jyotis, p. 427,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.