MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Buddhi mean?
Sanskrit buddhi names the faculty of understanding and judgement. In Samkhya philosophy it has a specific role as the intellect that determines and distinguishes. Epic and Puranic accounts also personify Buddhi as a daughter of Daksha and wife of Dharma.
Pronunciation
IAST: buddhi
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बुद्धि
Letter-by-letter: buddhi
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
बुद्धी
Letter-by-letter: buddhī
6,350 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Buddhi in Indian usage
13,843 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: 4,039 records (29.2%).
- Recorded as male: 9,804 records (70.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 650 |
| 1940s | 1,457 |
| 1950s | 2,168 |
| 1960s | 2,862 |
| 1970s | 2,632 |
| 1980s | 2,326 |
| 1990s | 1,600 |
| Other decades | 148 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 5,416 |
| Rajasthan | 2,706 |
| Uttarakhand | 2,062 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,174 |
| Odisha | 566 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 441 |
| Bihar | 416 |
| Tripura | 324 |
| Haryana | 214 |
| Assam | 196 |
| Jharkhand | 163 |
| Other states | 165 |
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, buddhi, p. 733,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.