MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Vijay mean?
The Sanskrit root ji, to conquer, underlies Vijaya as well as jaya and the name ending jit. Vijaya is the feminine name form with a long final ā.
Pronunciation
IAST: vijaya
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
विजय
Letter-by-letter: vijaya
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Vijay in Indian usage
1,231,672 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (92.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 92,031 records (7.5%).
- Recorded as male: 1,139,641 records (92.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 1,359 |
| 1930s | 4,326 |
| 1940s | 23,247 |
| 1950s | 75,732 |
| 1960s | 176,578 |
| 1970s | 287,974 |
| 1980s | 396,223 |
| 1990s | 266,023 |
| Other decades | 210 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 469,138 |
| Bihar | 266,486 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 125,657 |
| Rajasthan | 86,230 |
| Jharkhand | 73,726 |
| Haryana | 69,808 |
| Delhi | 54,134 |
| Uttarakhand | 27,755 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 25,006 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 20,351 |
| Chandigarh | 3,634 |
| Maharashtra | 3,335 |
| Goa | 1,914 |
| Kerala | 1,677 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 529 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 517 |
| Puducherry | 512 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 271 |
| Meghalaya | 255 |
| Daman and Diu | 171 |
| Karnataka | 166 |
| Nagaland | 106 |
| Other states | 294 |
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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Documented namesakes
Vijay Eswaran
Malaysian businessman
Sources
- Given-name entry (Wikidata): Vijay ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Given-name spelling
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, vijaya, p. 960,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: विजय ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.