MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Saroja mean?
Saroja is a lotus-name familiar in southern India. Its Sanskrit compound literally describes a flower born in a lake, from saras and ja.
Pronunciation
IAST: sarojā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सरोजा
Letter-by-letter: sarojā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Saroja in Indian usage
52,775 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 52,379 records (99.2%).
- Recorded as male: 396 records (0.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,239 |
| 1950s | 3,172 |
| 1960s | 7,662 |
| 1970s | 13,726 |
| 1980s | 18,774 |
| 1990s | 7,814 |
| Other decades | 388 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 31,560 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 8,255 |
| Bihar | 4,975 |
| Puducherry | 2,241 |
| Kerala | 2,011 |
| Karnataka | 693 |
| Jharkhand | 617 |
| Delhi | 388 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 375 |
| Maharashtra | 300 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 261 |
| Odisha | 256 |
| Goa | 196 |
| Punjab | 179 |
| Uttarakhand | 126 |
| Rajasthan | 114 |
| Other states | 228 |
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
- Wiktionary: सरोज ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Behind the Name: Saroja ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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