MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Savai mean?
Sawai literally expresses “one and a quarter” in North Indian usage. As an honorific it came to suggest exceptional standing, and it appears in Rajasthan's royal naming vocabulary.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सवाई
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Savai in Indian usage
13,612 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (81.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 2,551 records (18.7%).
- Recorded as male: 11,061 records (81.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 396 |
| 1940s | 835 |
| 1950s | 1,339 |
| 1960s | 1,894 |
| 1970s | 2,251 |
| 1980s | 3,465 |
| 1990s | 3,328 |
| Other decades | 104 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 7,978 |
| Maharashtra | 4,369 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 559 |
| Gujarat | 367 |
| Haryana | 161 |
| Other states | 178 |
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