MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sanjivan mean?
Sanjivan comes from sañjīvana, bringing back to life or animating. In the Ramayana, the life-restoring herb brought by Hanuman is remembered through the related name Sanjivani.
Pronunciation
IAST: sañjīvana
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
संजीवन
Letter-by-letter: sañjīvana
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sanjivan in Indian usage
4,084 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (88.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 467 records (11.4%).
- Recorded as male: 3,617 records (88.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 303 |
| 1960s | 702 |
| 1970s | 974 |
| 1980s | 1,091 |
| 1990s | 800 |
| Other decades | 214 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 1,777 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,377 |
| Jharkhand | 353 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 244 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 156 |
| Other states | 177 |
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, saṃjīvana, p. 1133,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.