MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Ranjit mean?
Ranjit follows the Punjabi compound raṇ, battle, and jīt, victory. The first element is the battle word used in Sanskrit-derived martial vocabulary.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
रणजीत
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਰਣਜੀਤ
Conventional spelling
Other spellings
- Ranjeet
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Ranjit in Indian usage
23,480 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (91.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,919 records (8.2%).
- Recorded as male: 21,561 records (91.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 547 |
| 1950s | 934 |
| 1960s | 1,685 |
| 1970s | 5,283 |
| 1980s | 9,969 |
| 1990s | 4,888 |
| Other decades | 174 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Delhi | 15,667 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,742 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 1,207 |
| Bihar | 725 |
| Meghalaya | 632 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 614 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 596 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 580 |
| Manipur | 324 |
| Goa | 233 |
| Nagaland | 208 |
| Kerala | 196 |
| Sikkim | 141 |
| Jharkhand | 100 |
| Other states | 515 |
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.