MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bhagavan mean?
Bhagavān is a title built from bhaga, fortune or excellence, and can be used for revered figures as well as deities. Bhagavati is the related feminine honorific form.
Pronunciation
IAST: bhagavāna
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
भगवान
Letter-by-letter: bhagavāna
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਭਗਵਾਨ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bhagavan in Indian usage
256,039 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (83.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 42,225 records (16.5%).
- Recorded as male: 213,814 records (83.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 2,216 |
| 1930s | 9,493 |
| 1940s | 24,661 |
| 1950s | 40,330 |
| 1960s | 54,737 |
| 1970s | 50,088 |
| 1980s | 46,072 |
| 1990s | 28,257 |
| Other decades | 185 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 98,798 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 46,349 |
| Rajasthan | 46,335 |
| Bihar | 23,744 |
| Punjab | 12,925 |
| Haryana | 10,137 |
| Uttarakhand | 8,153 |
| Jharkhand | 4,384 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 2,516 |
| Maharashtra | 2,419 |
| Other states | 279 |
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
- Wiktionary: भगवान ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.