MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Niranjan mean?
Nirañjana combines a privative prefix with añjana, colouring or stain, and occurs as a divine epithet in devotional language. Nir removes the sense of añjana, colouring or stain, in the adjective.
Pronunciation
IAST: nirañjana
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
निरंजन
Letter-by-letter: nirañjana
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Niranjan in Indian usage
104,296 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (96.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 3,435 records (3.3%).
- Recorded as male: 100,861 records (96.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,835 |
| 1940s | 4,466 |
| 1950s | 7,824 |
| 1960s | 15,000 |
| 1970s | 22,954 |
| 1980s | 28,122 |
| 1990s | 23,516 |
| Other decades | 579 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 44,469 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 19,904 |
| Jharkhand | 15,835 |
| Rajasthan | 7,584 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 6,988 |
| Punjab | 4,860 |
| Haryana | 2,644 |
| Uttarakhand | 899 |
| Maharashtra | 443 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 385 |
| Other states | 285 |
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, nirañjana, p. 539,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.