MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Raj mean?
The Hindi royal word rāj can stand alone as a personal name. In Rajkumar it qualifies kumār, son or prince, to express royal parentage.
Pronunciation
IAST: rāja
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
राज
Letter-by-letter: rāja
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Raj in Indian usage
1,214,514 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: 449,912 records (37%).
- Recorded as male: 764,602 records (63%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 3,560 |
| 1930s | 16,671 |
| 1940s | 53,204 |
| 1950s | 123,840 |
| 1960s | 248,983 |
| 1970s | 314,049 |
| 1980s | 285,250 |
| 1990s | 168,596 |
| Other decades | 361 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 374,301 |
| Bihar | 237,447 |
| Haryana | 166,732 |
| Punjab | 140,319 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 69,539 |
| Delhi | 67,554 |
| Jharkhand | 38,383 |
| Rajasthan | 35,582 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 34,891 |
| Gujarat | 17,961 |
| Uttarakhand | 8,668 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 7,012 |
| Chandigarh | 5,683 |
| Maharashtra | 3,710 |
| Kerala | 1,875 |
| Assam | 937 |
| Tripura | 842 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 501 |
| Meghalaya | 498 |
| Sikkim | 411 |
| Manipur | 308 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 300 |
| Goa | 249 |
| Odisha | 188 |
| Puducherry | 181 |
| Nagaland | 173 |
| Mizoram | 152 |
| Other states | 117 |
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
- Given-name entry (Wikidata): Raj ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Given-name spelling
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, rāj, p. 872,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Behind the Name: Raj ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
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