MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Vrij mean?
Braj is the region around Mathura remembered for Krishna's childhood stories. Vrij is a regional form of this place name, whose older Sanskrit vraja denotes a cattle enclosure or settlement of herdsmen.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
ब्रज
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
वृज
Letter-by-letter: vṛja
7,243 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Vrij in Indian usage
8,542 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (90.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 833 records (9.8%).
- Recorded as male: 7,709 records (90.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 556 |
| 1950s | 1,114 |
| 1960s | 1,809 |
| 1970s | 2,166 |
| 1980s | 2,021 |
| 1990s | 650 |
| Other decades | 226 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 4,414 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,371 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 623 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 450 |
| Jharkhand | 347 |
| Haryana | 170 |
| Other states | 167 |
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, vraja, p. 1042,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.