MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Buddh mean?
Buddha is the Sanskrit past participle of budh, to awaken or understand. As a title it refers especially to Gautama Buddha, the teacher whose awakening is central to Buddhism.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बुद्ध
Conventional spelling
Bengali
বুদ্ধ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Buddh in Indian usage
15,692 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (96.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 586 records (3.7%).
- Recorded as male: 15,106 records (96.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 710 |
| 1940s | 1,745 |
| 1950s | 2,512 |
| 1960s | 3,276 |
| 1970s | 2,969 |
| 1980s | 2,785 |
| 1990s | 1,561 |
| Other decades | 134 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 9,182 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,915 |
| Haryana | 967 |
| Bihar | 926 |
| Rajasthan | 613 |
| Assam | 582 |
| Tripura | 561 |
| Uttarakhand | 433 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 222 |
| Jharkhand | 128 |
| Other states | 163 |
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, buddha, p. 733,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.