MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Yajn mean?
Yajn preserves the Sanskrit word yajna, a sacred offering or sacrificial rite. In Indian ritual vocabulary the word includes the act of making offerings, often through fire.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
यज्ञ
Conventional spelling
Odia
ଯଜ୍ଞ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Yajn in Indian usage
1,979 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (83.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,654 records (83.6%).
- Recorded as male: 325 records (16.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 144 |
| 1950s | 376 |
| 1960s | 490 |
| 1970s | 461 |
| 1980s | 290 |
| Other decades | 218 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 1,979 |
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, yajña, p. 839,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.