MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Rajeev mean?
Sanskrit rājīva is a lotus word used as the name Rajeev. Poetic compounds draw on it to describe eyes resembling a lotus.
Pronunciation
IAST: rājīva
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
राजीव
Letter-by-letter: rājīva
Conventional spelling
Other spellings
- Rajiv
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Rajeev in Indian usage
413,057 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 2,416 records (0.6%).
- Recorded as male: 410,641 records (99.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 296 |
| 1940s | 731 |
| 1950s | 5,981 |
| 1960s | 37,259 |
| 1970s | 108,989 |
| 1980s | 176,408 |
| 1990s | 83,153 |
| Other decades | 240 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 139,870 |
| Bihar | 126,796 |
| Delhi | 22,838 |
| Kerala | 21,311 |
| Haryana | 21,075 |
| Jharkhand | 18,054 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 17,020 |
| Punjab | 15,820 |
| Rajasthan | 9,122 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 8,718 |
| Uttarakhand | 7,215 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 2,284 |
| Chandigarh | 1,220 |
| Maharashtra | 359 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 333 |
| Meghalaya | 303 |
| Goa | 265 |
| Other states | 454 |
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, rājīva, p. 875,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Behind the Name: Rajiv ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.