MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sanjiv mean?
Life is the sense of jīv in Sañjīva and in sañjīvanī, the life-restoring term of literature. Sanjivani is the related reviving name familiar from the healing-herb tradition.
Pronunciation
IAST: sañjīva
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
संजीव
Letter-by-letter: sañjīva
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sanjiv in Indian usage
380,331 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 2,563 records (0.7%).
- Recorded as male: 377,768 records (99.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 243 |
| 1940s | 355 |
| 1950s | 2,376 |
| 1960s | 27,596 |
| 1970s | 113,884 |
| 1980s | 144,316 |
| 1990s | 91,398 |
| Other decades | 163 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 143,146 |
| Bihar | 94,953 |
| Haryana | 38,051 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 24,436 |
| Delhi | 23,406 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 21,260 |
| Jharkhand | 13,871 |
| Rajasthan | 8,468 |
| Uttarakhand | 7,425 |
| Chandigarh | 2,279 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 985 |
| Kerala | 882 |
| Maharashtra | 325 |
| Goa | 285 |
| Meghalaya | 174 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 113 |
| Other states | 272 |
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, saṃjīva, p. 1133,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.