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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Balvir

hero of strength

Balvir means “hero of strength”.

Origin language
Punjabi
First letter
B
Historical records
175,243

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Balvir mean?

Balvir combines bal, strength, and vīr, hero, with the short vowel in bal distinguishing it from child-related bāl. Balbir is the corresponding regional form with b in the second member.

Meaning themes

strengthheroism

Spellings in Indian scripts

Gurmukhi

ਬਲਵੀਰ

Conventional spelling

Devanagari

बलवीर

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

Other spellings

  • Balveer

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Balvir in Indian usage

175,243 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.

  • Recorded as female: 46,906 records (26.8%).
  • Recorded as male: 128,337 records (73.2%).

By birth decade

Balvir: records by birth decade1930s: 4,0801930s1940s: 13,9951940s1950s: 27,0161950s1960s: 41,7141960s1970s: 38,7081970s1980s: 32,3481980s1990s: 16,6581990sOther decades: 724Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1930s4,080
1940s13,995
1950s27,016
1960s41,714
1970s38,708
1980s32,348
1990s16,658
Other decades724

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Punjab90,278
Uttar Pradesh33,834
Rajasthan17,446
Madhya Pradesh12,169
Haryana8,930
Uttarakhand6,777
Himachal Pradesh2,940
Bihar1,969
Jharkhand399
Maharashtra352
Other states149
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Wiktionary: ਬਲ ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  3. Wiktionary: ਵੀਰ ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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