MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Tanuj mean?
Tanuja is a Sanskrit compound of tanu, body, and ja, born. It came to denote a son, while the feminine Tanuja is used for a daughter.
Pronunciation
IAST: tanuja
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
तनुज
Letter-by-letter: tanuja
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Tanuj in Indian usage
5,057 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (95.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 233 records (4.6%).
- Recorded as male: 4,824 records (95.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1980s | 1,862 |
| 1990s | 2,733 |
| Other decades | 462 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,177 |
| Haryana | 638 |
| Rajasthan | 567 |
| Uttarakhand | 523 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 324 |
| Bihar | 233 |
| Punjab | 151 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 132 |
| Other states | 312 |
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, tanuja, p. 435,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: तनुज ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.