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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Rajab

Rajab, the seventh Islamic month; respect

Rajab means “Rajab, the seventh Islamic month; respect”.

Origin language
Arabic / Urdu
First letter
R
Historical records
1,670

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Rajab mean?

Rajab is the seventh month of the Islamic lunar calendar. Its Arabic root is connected with respect or honour, which gives the month name its lexical background.

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

रजब

Conventional spelling

Arabic

رجب

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Rajab in Indian usage

1,670 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for boys (93.9%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 102 records (6.1%).
  • Recorded as male: 1,568 records (93.9%).

By birth decade

Rajab: records by birth decade1950s: 1421950s1960s: 2371960s1970s: 3661970s1980s: 4281980s1990s: 3681990sOther decades: 129Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1950s142
1960s237
1970s366
1980s428
1990s368
Other decades129

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Uttar Pradesh365
Rajasthan331
Madhya Pradesh176
Bihar139
Assam128
Jharkhand111
Other states420
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Wiktionary: رجب ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    meaning

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