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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Bidyadhar

Bearer of knowledge; celestial Vidyadhara

Bidyadhar means “Bearer of knowledge; celestial Vidyadhara”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Odia
First letter
B
Historical records
8,566

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Bidyadhar mean?

Vidyadhara joins vidya, knowledge or learning, with dhara, bearer. Sanskrit literature also calls magically gifted celestial beings Vidyadharas, especially in stories set around the Himalayas. Bidyadhar is the established eastern form of this name.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

विद्याधर

Conventional spelling

Odia

ବିଦ୍ୟାଧର

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Bidyadhar in Indian usage

8,566 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.

  • Recorded as female: 1,866 records (21.8%).
  • Recorded as male: 6,700 records (78.2%).

By birth decade

Bidyadhar: records by birth decade1940s: 5511940s1950s: 1,2071950s1960s: 1,7621960s1970s: 2,0581970s1980s: 1,7711980s1990s: 8681990sOther decades: 349Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1940s551
1950s1,207
1960s1,762
1970s2,058
1980s1,771
1990s868
Other decades349

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Odisha8,361
Other states205
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, vidyādhara, p. 964,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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