MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Ranajit mean?
Raṇajit joins raṇa, battle, with jit, conquering, and the retroflex ṇ distinguishes its first member from unrelated similar words. Raṇa, battle, precedes jita, conquered, in the Sanskrit formation.
Pronunciation
IAST: raṇajīta
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
रणजित
Letter-by-letter: raṇajīta
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
रणजीत
Letter-by-letter: raṇajīta
154,466 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Ranajit in Indian usage
154,466 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling रणजीत.
Mostly recorded for boys (94.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 9,180 records (5.9%).
- Recorded as male: 145,286 records (94.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 214 |
| 1930s | 1,299 |
| 1940s | 4,580 |
| 1950s | 9,778 |
| 1960s | 20,979 |
| 1970s | 43,245 |
| 1980s | 45,779 |
| 1990s | 28,592 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 41,912 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 31,156 |
| Rajasthan | 30,697 |
| Haryana | 21,342 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 9,056 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 8,039 |
| Uttarakhand | 6,037 |
| Jharkhand | 5,137 |
| Other states | 1,090 |
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, raṇa, p. 863,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: ਜੀਤ ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.