MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Avid mean?
Abid comes from the Arabic active participle ʿābid, one who worships. It belongs to the same root as ʿibāda, worship or devotional service.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
आबिद
Conventional spelling
Arabic
عابد
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
आविद
15,399 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Avid in Indian usage
16,217 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 232 records (1.4%).
- Recorded as male: 15,985 records (98.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 415 |
| 1950s | 1,110 |
| 1960s | 2,367 |
| 1970s | 3,481 |
| 1980s | 5,198 |
| 1990s | 3,481 |
| Other decades | 165 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 11,347 |
| Bihar | 1,933 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,552 |
| Rajasthan | 554 |
| Jharkhand | 393 |
| Other states | 438 |
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