MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Ramai mean?
Ramai is a northern familiar form built on the name Ram. Rama is the prince of Ayodhya and the central hero of the Ramayana, which supplies the name's devotional background.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
रमई
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Ramai in Indian usage
3,171 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (95.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 141 records (4.4%).
- Recorded as male: 3,030 records (95.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 189 |
| 1940s | 496 |
| 1950s | 692 |
| 1960s | 750 |
| 1970s | 545 |
| 1980s | 325 |
| Other decades | 174 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,097 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 741 |
| Bihar | 195 |
| Other states | 138 |
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, rāmacandra, p. 877,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.