MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Pankaj mean?
Mud, paṅka, and birth, ja, combine in the Sanskrit lotus word paṅkaja. The lotus image comes from the plant growing with its roots in muddy water.
Pronunciation
IAST: paṅkaja
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पंकज
Letter-by-letter: paṅkaja
Conventional spelling
Bengali
পংকজ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Pankaj in Indian usage
541,720 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 10,575 records (2%).
- Recorded as male: 531,145 records (98%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 540 |
| 1930s | 160 |
| 1940s | 483 |
| 1950s | 2,008 |
| 1960s | 13,826 |
| 1970s | 79,890 |
| 1980s | 209,052 |
| 1990s | 235,637 |
| Other decades | 124 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 189,151 |
| Bihar | 153,990 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 45,583 |
| Rajasthan | 37,181 |
| Jharkhand | 29,719 |
| Delhi | 27,581 |
| Haryana | 24,028 |
| Uttarakhand | 19,990 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 6,524 |
| Assam | 3,980 |
| Chandigarh | 1,252 |
| Maharashtra | 631 |
| Goa | 539 |
| Meghalaya | 305 |
| Tripura | 259 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 195 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 182 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 131 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 114 |
| 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
- Wiktionary: पंकज ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Behind the Name: Pankaj ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.