MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Niraja mean?
Niraja is the feminine of nīraja, water-born, a Sanskrit word for the lotus. Its formation joins nīra, water, with ja, born, and is a familiar floral name.
Pronunciation
IAST: nīrajā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
नीरजा
Letter-by-letter: nīrajā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Niraja in Indian usage
6,767 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (97.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 6,592 records (97.4%).
- Recorded as male: 175 records (2.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 471 |
| 1960s | 1,134 |
| 1970s | 1,792 |
| 1980s | 2,112 |
| 1990s | 1,136 |
| Other decades | 122 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,392 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,018 |
| Bihar | 519 |
| Haryana | 443 |
| Rajasthan | 375 |
| Punjab | 313 |
| Uttarakhand | 263 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 207 |
| Jharkhand | 121 |
| Other states | 116 |
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, nīraja, p. 566,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.