MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Baladev mean?
Baladev corresponds to Sanskrit Baladeva, an established name of Balarama. The compound joins bala, strength, with deva, god, and Balarama is Krishna’s elder brother in epic tradition.
Pronunciation
IAST: baladeva
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बलदेव
Letter-by-letter: baladeva
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਬਲਦੇਵ
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
बालदेव
Letter-by-letter: bāladeva
6,931 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Baladev in Indian usage
129,964 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (92.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 9,364 records (7.2%).
- Recorded as male: 120,600 records (92.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 4,434 |
| 1940s | 15,338 |
| 1950s | 26,911 |
| 1960s | 31,653 |
| 1970s | 25,398 |
| 1980s | 17,868 |
| 1990s | 7,510 |
| Other decades | 852 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Punjab | 67,641 |
| Haryana | 14,153 |
| Jharkhand | 10,099 |
| Bihar | 9,960 |
| Rajasthan | 8,584 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 7,378 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 4,851 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 4,115 |
| Uttarakhand | 2,359 |
| Chandigarh | 580 |
| Maharashtra | 119 |
| Other states | 125 |
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, baladeva, p. 722,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.