MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Rah mean?
Rah is the Persian word for a road or way, borrowed into Urdu and Hindi. In literary use the same path image can denote a course of action or a spiritual journey.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
राह
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Rah in Indian usage
6,243 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (95.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 255 records (4.1%).
- Recorded as male: 5,988 records (95.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1970s | 240 |
| 1980s | 1,804 |
| 1990s | 4,066 |
| Other decades | 133 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 5,581 |
| Uttarakhand | 373 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 183 |
| Other states | 106 |
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