MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bed mean?
Bed is a regional development of Ved, the Sanskrit word for sacred knowledge. The Vedas preserve ancient hymns and ritual texts that give the personal name its literary and religious setting.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
वेद
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
बेद
Letter-by-letter: beda
7,408 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bed in Indian usage
9,545 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (81.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,773 records (18.6%).
- Recorded as male: 7,772 records (81.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 683 |
| 1950s | 1,318 |
| 1960s | 1,971 |
| 1970s | 2,191 |
| 1980s | 1,842 |
| 1990s | 1,251 |
| Other decades | 289 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,423 |
| Haryana | 2,735 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 745 |
| Maharashtra | 732 |
| Bihar | 580 |
| Rajasthan | 278 |
| Gujarat | 272 |
| Jharkhand | 156 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 143 |
| Delhi | 118 |
| Other states | 363 |
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, veda, p. 1015,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.