IndianNameMeaning
☰

INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Viraju

Brij; Krishna's pastoral homeland

Viraju means “Brij; Krishna's pastoral homeland”.

Origin language
Hindi / Sanskrit
First letter
V
Historical records
5,861

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Viraju mean?

Viraju belongs to the Birju group of affectionate names connected with Brij. Brij is the region around Mathura celebrated in accounts of Krishna's childhood.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

विरजू

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Viraju in Indian usage

5,861 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for boys (97.7%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 135 records (2.3%).
  • Recorded as male: 5,726 records (97.7%).

By birth decade

Viraju: records by birth decade1940s: 2151940s1950s: 5491950s1960s: 9791960s1970s: 1,8421970s1980s: 1,7001980s1990s: 4631990sOther decades: 113Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1940s215
1950s549
1960s979
1970s1,842
1980s1,700
1990s463
Other decades113

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Bihar3,899
Jharkhand1,536
Uttar Pradesh256
Other states170
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.

Explore related lists

Sources

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, vraja, p. 1042,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

More names to explore