MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bodh mean?
Bodh is the Sanskrit-derived word for understanding or awakening. The same root underlies Buddha, the awakened one, and connects the name with Gautama Buddha's awakening.
Pronunciation
IAST: bodha
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Gurmukhi
ਬੋਧ
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
बोध
Letter-by-letter: bodha
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bodh in Indian usage
5,263 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (96%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 209 records (4%).
- Recorded as male: 5,054 records (96%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 359 |
| 1950s | 708 |
| 1960s | 1,140 |
| 1970s | 1,383 |
| 1980s | 1,065 |
| 1990s | 421 |
| Other decades | 187 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Punjab | 2,277 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 847 |
| Bihar | 640 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 384 |
| Haryana | 358 |
| Jharkhand | 241 |
| Maharashtra | 219 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 160 |
| Other states | 137 |
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, bodha, p. 734,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.