MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Ragani mean?
Ragani is the vernacular form of Ragini, a Sanskrit term for a musical mode related to a raga. In older musical classification, ragas and raginis were arranged in families, giving the name a specific musicological background.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
रागिनी
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
रागनी
Letter-by-letter: rāganī
29,738 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Ragani in Indian usage
30,862 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 30,639 records (99.3%).
- Recorded as male: 223 records (0.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 416 |
| 1960s | 1,892 |
| 1970s | 5,053 |
| 1980s | 10,620 |
| 1990s | 12,757 |
| Other decades | 124 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 18,965 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 7,010 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 3,572 |
| Jharkhand | 681 |
| Haryana | 223 |
| Rajasthan | 134 |
| Uttarakhand | 120 |
| Other states | 157 |
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, rāgiṇī, p. 872,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.