MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Vijaya mean?
Vijaya is the feminine form associated with Sanskrit vijaya, victory. The feminine name is also a title of Durga. It appears in the festival name Vijayadashami, celebrated in honour of the goddess.
Pronunciation
IAST: vijayā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
विजया
Letter-by-letter: vijayā
Conventional spelling
Kannada
ವಿಜಯಾ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Vijaya in Indian usage
18,091 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (94.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 17,163 records (94.9%).
- Recorded as male: 928 records (5.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 998 |
| 1950s | 2,302 |
| 1960s | 3,909 |
| 1970s | 4,417 |
| 1980s | 4,156 |
| 1990s | 1,979 |
| Other decades | 330 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 3,301 |
| Karnataka | 3,294 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,066 |
| Bihar | 2,446 |
| Uttarakhand | 2,019 |
| Rajasthan | 1,321 |
| Jharkhand | 1,145 |
| Maharashtra | 1,012 |
| Haryana | 272 |
| Other states | 215 |
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, vijaya, p. 960,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, vijayā, p. 960,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.