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Banavari

Krishna; wanderer of the forest

Banavari means “Krishna; wanderer of the forest”.

Origin language
Hindi / Sanskrit
First letter
B
Historical records
100,409

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Banavari mean?

Wandering in the forest is the image behind Banavari, a vernacular title of Krishna. Its forest element corresponds to Sanskrit vana, also found in Vanamali.

Pronunciation

IAST: banavārī

Meaning themes

krishnaforest

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

बनवारी

Letter-by-letter: banavārī

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Banavari in Indian usage

100,409 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for boys (99.1%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 854 records (0.9%).
  • Recorded as male: 99,555 records (99.1%).

By birth decade

Banavari: records by birth decade1930s: 3,5631930s1940s: 9,5081940s1950s: 15,7691950s1960s: 21,0461960s1970s: 19,2951970s1980s: 18,7731980s1990s: 11,6881990sOther decades: 767Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1930s3,563
1940s9,508
1950s15,769
1960s21,046
1970s19,295
1980s18,773
1990s11,688
Other decades767

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Rajasthan49,085
Uttar Pradesh29,944
Madhya Pradesh9,072
Haryana5,686
Bihar2,201
Jharkhand1,777
Punjab1,384
Uttarakhand499
Maharashtra469
Other states292
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

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