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Bhimasen

Having a formidable army; Bhima

Bhimasen means “Having a formidable army; Bhima”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Odia / Hindi
First letter
B
Historical records
16,474

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Bhimasen mean?

Bhimasen is the Sanskrit compound for having a formidable army. It is the full name of Bhima, the second Pandava brother in the Mahabharata. The epic describes him as one of Kunti's sons.

Pronunciation

IAST: bhīmasena

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

भीमसेन

Letter-by-letter: bhīmasena

Conventional spelling

Odia

ଭୀମସେନ

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Bhimasen in Indian usage

16,474 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for boys (92.1%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 1,302 records (7.9%).
  • Recorded as male: 15,172 records (92.1%).

By birth decade

Bhimasen: records by birth decade1940s: 4321940s1950s: 7891950s1960s: 1,1591960s1970s: 1,4101970s1980s: 11,7611980s1990s: 6661990sOther decades: 257Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1940s432
1950s789
1960s1,159
1970s1,410
1980s11,761
1990s666
Other decades257

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Other states16,474
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, bhīmasena, p. 758,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  3. Monier-Williams, kuntī, p. 291,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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