MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Raju mean?
Raju uses the royal root rāj with a familiar ending and can be an everyday call name as well as a registered name. Rajkumar retains the royal base in a longer compound.
Pronunciation
IAST: rājū
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
राजू
Letter-by-letter: rājū
Conventional spelling
Telugu
రాజు
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
രാജു
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Raju in Indian usage
993,608 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (86.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 129,848 records (13.1%).
- Recorded as male: 863,760 records (86.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 1,681 |
| 1930s | 3,938 |
| 1940s | 11,402 |
| 1950s | 32,723 |
| 1960s | 101,870 |
| 1970s | 223,699 |
| 1980s | 381,671 |
| 1990s | 236,425 |
| Other decades | 199 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 278,383 |
| Bihar | 181,547 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 130,689 |
| Rajasthan | 120,452 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 62,982 |
| Jharkhand | 56,550 |
| Kerala | 35,950 |
| Haryana | 29,308 |
| Karnataka | 26,677 |
| Punjab | 18,212 |
| Delhi | 11,177 |
| Odisha | 10,578 |
| Uttarakhand | 8,156 |
| Tripura | 4,568 |
| Maharashtra | 4,011 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 3,798 |
| Assam | 3,630 |
| Meghalaya | 1,298 |
| Goa | 1,230 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1,212 |
| Chandigarh | 1,130 |
| Nagaland | 404 |
| Puducherry | 393 |
| Manipur | 368 |
| Sikkim | 356 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 181 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 116 |
| Other states | 252 |
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
- Wiktionary: Raju ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Behind the Name: Raju ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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