MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Punji mean?
Punji is the Hindi noun for accumulated wealth or capital. Its older word group includes puñja, a heap or collection, which explains the sense of resources gathered together.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पूँजी
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
पूंजी
Letter-by-letter: pūṃjī
2,939 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
पुंजी
Letter-by-letter: puṃjī
1,798 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Punji in Indian usage
5,444 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (93.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 5,069 records (93.1%).
- Recorded as male: 375 records (6.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 381 |
| 1940s | 723 |
| 1950s | 1,040 |
| 1960s | 1,138 |
| 1970s | 758 |
| 1980s | 768 |
| 1990s | 535 |
| Other decades | 101 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 4,635 |
| Other states | 809 |
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, puñja, p. 631,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.