MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Rajneesh mean?
Rajanīśa joins rajanī, night, with īśa, lord, as a poetic moon title. The night word also stands alone in the name Rajani.
Pronunciation
IAST: rajanīśa
Meaning themes
moonnight
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
रजनीश
Letter-by-letter: rajanīśa
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਰਜਨੀਸ਼
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Rajneesh in Indian usage
102,777 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (95%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 5,122 records (5%).
- Recorded as male: 97,655 records (95%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 951 |
| 1960s | 4,967 |
| 1970s | 18,247 |
| 1980s | 39,246 |
| 1990s | 39,098 |
| Other decades | 268 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 44,934 |
| Bihar | 23,771 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 10,728 |
| Haryana | 5,508 |
| Punjab | 5,269 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 3,678 |
| Rajasthan | 3,492 |
| Uttarakhand | 2,066 |
| Jharkhand | 1,663 |
| Delhi | 1,176 |
| Other states | 492 |
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, rajanīśa, p. 863,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.