MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Surji mean?
Surji belongs to the north Indian name family built around sūraj, the sun. The feminine ending gives a household form to that solar name, reflecting ordinary vernacular naming rather than a separate Sanskrit compound.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सूरजी
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
सुरजी
Letter-by-letter: surajī
28,929 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Surji in Indian usage
33,915 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (97%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 32,893 records (97%).
- Recorded as male: 1,022 records (3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 1,312 |
| 1930s | 3,782 |
| 1940s | 6,043 |
| 1950s | 7,000 |
| 1960s | 7,144 |
| 1970s | 4,588 |
| 1980s | 2,626 |
| 1990s | 1,305 |
| Other decades | 115 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 8,903 |
| Bihar | 8,641 |
| Jharkhand | 6,841 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 4,819 |
| Haryana | 2,039 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,327 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,007 |
| Punjab | 137 |
| Other states | 201 |
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, sūrya, p. 1243,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.