MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Avatar mean?
Avatāra joins ava, down, with a crossing or coming sense. In narrative traditions it denotes a deity's appearance on earth, especially the incarnations of Vishnu.
Pronunciation
IAST: avatāra
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
अवतार
Letter-by-letter: avatāra
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਅਵਤਾਰ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Avatar in Indian usage
93,682 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (92.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 7,123 records (7.6%).
- Recorded as male: 86,559 records (92.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,917 |
| 1940s | 5,873 |
| 1950s | 11,167 |
| 1960s | 18,308 |
| 1970s | 21,553 |
| 1980s | 22,798 |
| 1990s | 11,702 |
| Other decades | 364 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Punjab | 71,812 |
| Haryana | 6,778 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,599 |
| Uttarakhand | 2,765 |
| Rajasthan | 2,497 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 2,274 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,517 |
| Chandigarh | 791 |
| Maharashtra | 635 |
| Jharkhand | 581 |
| Bihar | 333 |
| Gujarat | 100 |
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, avatāra, p. 99,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.