MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bharat mean?
Bharata names Rama's brother and a different royal figure in the Mahabharata tradition, so those characters should remain distinct. The epic Bharata identities include Rama's brother and Shakuntala's son.
Pronunciation
IAST: bharata
Meaning themes
ramayanamahabharata
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
भरत
Letter-by-letter: bharata
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bharat in Indian usage
195,827 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: 1,784 records (0.9%).
- Recorded as male: 194,043 records (99.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 2,224 |
| 1940s | 7,524 |
| 1950s | 17,646 |
| 1960s | 30,826 |
| 1970s | 38,289 |
| 1980s | 50,703 |
| 1990s | 48,001 |
| Other decades | 614 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 55,588 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 39,831 |
| Rajasthan | 36,675 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 24,254 |
| Jharkhand | 13,906 |
| Uttarakhand | 8,044 |
| Haryana | 7,962 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 4,863 |
| Punjab | 1,380 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,022 |
| Kerala | 771 |
| Maharashtra | 544 |
| Chandigarh | 312 |
| Tripura | 249 |
| Assam | 164 |
| Puducherry | 140 |
| Other states | 122 |
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, bharata, p. 747,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, bhārata, p. 753,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.