MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Rajni mean?
The Sanskrit noun rajanī names the night and is described as “the dark one”. Rajni continues that literary nature word as a familiar feminine personal name. A separate botanical sense of rajanī denotes turmeric.
Pronunciation
IAST: rajanī
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
रजनी
Letter-by-letter: rajanī
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Rajni in Indian usage
13,471 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (98.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 13,223 records (98.2%).
- Recorded as male: 248 records (1.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 459 |
| 1960s | 1,323 |
| 1970s | 3,770 |
| 1980s | 5,639 |
| 1990s | 2,059 |
| Other decades | 221 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Delhi | 13,064 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 110 |
| Other states | 297 |
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)
- Behind the Name: Rajani ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.