MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Phaguni mean?
Phaguni is a vernacular name connected with Phagun, the late winter and spring month. The month brings the seasonal setting of Holi into the name's cultural background.
Meaning themes
spring
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
फगुनी
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Phaguni in Indian usage
10,632 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: 7,680 records (72.2%).
- Recorded as male: 2,952 records (27.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 688 |
| 1940s | 1,594 |
| 1950s | 2,161 |
| 1960s | 2,523 |
| 1970s | 2,053 |
| 1980s | 1,134 |
| 1990s | 293 |
| Other decades | 186 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 3,740 |
| Jharkhand | 3,345 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,063 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 858 |
| Odisha | 406 |
| Rajasthan | 105 |
| Other states | 115 |
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, phālguna, p. 718,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.