MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Budh mean?
Budh comes from budha, an adjective for someone awake, intelligent or learned. The same name denotes Mercury and the mythological son of the moon deity Soma.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बुध
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਬੁਧ
2,057 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Budh in Indian usage
11,544 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (92.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 858 records (7.4%).
- Recorded as male: 10,686 records (92.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 467 |
| 1940s | 1,132 |
| 1950s | 1,810 |
| 1960s | 2,470 |
| 1970s | 2,439 |
| 1980s | 2,024 |
| 1990s | 1,082 |
| Other decades | 120 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Haryana | 2,922 |
| Punjab | 2,162 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,390 |
| Rajasthan | 1,250 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 983 |
| Bihar | 626 |
| Maharashtra | 469 |
| Jharkhand | 441 |
| Delhi | 398 |
| Sikkim | 252 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 150 |
| Odisha | 138 |
| Other states | 363 |
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, budha, p. 734,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.