MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Rajani mean?
Rajanī is a Sanskrit poetic noun for night. The night element also begins Rajneesh, a lunar title meaning lord of the night.
Pronunciation
IAST: rajanī
Meaning themes
night
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
रजनी
Letter-by-letter: rajanī
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Rajani in Indian usage
478,385 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (97.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 464,760 records (97.2%).
- Recorded as male: 13,625 records (2.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 2,123 |
| 1940s | 5,635 |
| 1950s | 23,978 |
| 1960s | 38,537 |
| 1970s | 92,850 |
| 1980s | 181,288 |
| 1990s | 133,280 |
| Other decades | 694 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 139,649 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 80,128 |
| Punjab | 42,057 |
| Haryana | 36,591 |
| Bihar | 33,795 |
| Odisha | 33,442 |
| Rajasthan | 29,453 |
| Kerala | 18,145 |
| Uttarakhand | 14,999 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 14,361 |
| Jharkhand | 12,285 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 11,862 |
| Gujarat | 4,007 |
| Maharashtra | 2,411 |
| Chandigarh | 1,858 |
| Delhi | 1,021 |
| Karnataka | 842 |
| Goa | 831 |
| Tripura | 257 |
| Other states | 391 |
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, rajanī, p. 863,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: Rajani ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.