MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Basudev mean?
Basudev here represents Vasudev, the patronymic name of Krishna. The long-vowel form refers to the son of Vasudeva and is a familiar name for the deity in devotional use.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
वासुदेव
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
बासुदेव
Letter-by-letter: bāsudeva
22,225 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Basudev in Indian usage
1,056 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 179 |
| 1970s | 242 |
| 1980s | 253 |
| 1990s | 210 |
| Other decades | 172 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Jharkhand | 174 |
| Uttarakhand | 139 |
| Bihar | 132 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 129 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 121 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 115 |
| Other states | 246 |
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, vāsudeva, p. 948,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.