MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Rabi mean?
Rabi is the Odia and Bengali form of Ravi, the Sanskrit sun name. The word also names the sun deity and supplies the regional word for Sunday.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
रवि
Conventional spelling
Odia
ରବି
Conventional spelling
Bengali
রবি
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Rabi in Indian usage
42,494 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: 14,678 records (34.5%).
- Recorded as male: 27,816 records (65.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 211 |
| 1940s | 721 |
| 1950s | 2,372 |
| 1960s | 4,109 |
| 1970s | 15,849 |
| 1980s | 14,483 |
| 1990s | 4,630 |
| Other decades | 119 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 34,362 |
| Tripura | 2,249 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,515 |
| Jharkhand | 1,092 |
| Bihar | 828 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 583 |
| Assam | 516 |
| Kerala | 495 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 112 |
| Meghalaya | 110 |
| Other states | 632 |
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, ravi, p. 869,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.