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Rajendra

chief of kings; emperor

Rajendra means “chief of kings; emperor”.

Origin language
Sanskrit
First letter
R
Historical records
1,063,976

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Rajendra mean?

Rājendra joins rāja and indra in the compound sense chief or foremost. Sanskrit vowel sandhi joins rāja and indra as rājendra.

Pronunciation

IAST: rājendra

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

राजेन्द्र

Letter-by-letter: rājendra

Conventional spelling

Telugu

రాజేంద్ర

Conventional spelling

Devanagari

राजेंद्र

Letter-by-letter: rājeṃdra

109,586 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Rajendra in Indian usage

1,063,976 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for boys (98.1%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 20,092 records (1.9%).
  • Recorded as male: 1,043,884 records (98.1%).

By birth decade

Rajendra: records by birth decade1920s: 1,5931920s1930s: 9,1161930s1940s: 40,4321940s1950s: 125,6191950s1960s: 243,5481960s1970s: 267,3831970s1980s: 240,0811980s1990s: 136,0031990sOther decades: 201Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1920s1,593
1930s9,116
1940s40,432
1950s125,619
1960s243,548
1970s267,383
1980s240,081
1990s136,003
Other decades201

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Uttar Pradesh384,418
Bihar162,260
Rajasthan159,113
Madhya Pradesh132,597
Haryana72,167
Jharkhand51,300
Uttarakhand43,075
Odisha24,780
Himachal Pradesh10,843
Delhi7,434
Andhra Pradesh6,715
Goa2,317
Maharashtra2,013
Tripura1,801
Kerala1,022
Assam617
Chandigarh535
Arunachal Pradesh199
Meghalaya181
Sikkim142
Dadra and Nagar Haveli135
Other states312
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.

Sources

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

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, rājendra, p. 874,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  3. Behind the Name: Rajendra ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    meaning

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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