MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bhagavana mean?
Bhagavana is a vernacular personal form of Bhagwan, the revered or divine one. The title is used for Vishnu and Shiva and also more broadly as a respectful sacred address.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
भगवान
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
भगवाना
Letter-by-letter: bhagavānā
10,946 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bhagavana in Indian usage
11,541 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (92.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 840 records (7.3%).
- Recorded as male: 10,701 records (92.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,206 |
| 1940s | 1,993 |
| 1950s | 2,499 |
| 1960s | 2,406 |
| 1970s | 1,446 |
| 1980s | 962 |
| 1990s | 711 |
| Other decades | 318 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 9,163 |
| Haryana | 1,136 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 982 |
| Other states | 260 |
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, bhagavat, p. 743,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.