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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Saroj

lotus; born in a lake

Saroj means “lotus; born in a lake”.

Origin language
Sanskrit
First letter
S
Historical records
824,881

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Saroj mean?

The lotus word saroja combines saras, lake, with ja, born. The Sanskrit noun saras supplies the lake or pool member of the compound.

Pronunciation

IAST: saroja

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

सरोज

Letter-by-letter: saroja

Conventional spelling

Gurmukhi

ਸਰੋਜ

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Saroj in Indian usage

824,881 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for girls (88.2%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 727,406 records (88.2%).
  • Recorded as male: 97,475 records (11.8%).

By birth decade

Saroj: records by birth decade1930s: 3,1231930s1940s: 16,9541940s1950s: 57,9041950s1960s: 147,4171960s1970s: 219,5871970s1980s: 248,5211980s1990s: 130,7381990sOther decades: 637Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1930s3,123
1940s16,954
1950s57,904
1960s147,417
1970s219,587
1980s248,521
1990s130,738
Other decades637

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Uttar Pradesh264,454
Rajasthan125,913
Bihar106,718
Madhya Pradesh104,924
Haryana93,158
Delhi29,856
Punjab27,785
Maharashtra19,833
Jharkhand18,712
Himachal Pradesh14,046
Uttarakhand11,610
Gujarat4,263
Chandigarh1,907
Goa285
Tripura285
Andhra Pradesh242
Assam183
Dadra and Nagar Haveli112
Andaman and Nicobar Islands105
Other states490
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Wiktionary: सरोज ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    meaning

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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