MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Budha mean?
Sanskrit budha describes someone wise or awake. Vernacular budha can also denote an elderly person, giving this name a separate age-related sense. Gautama Buddha is a further familiar referent, whose title expresses awakening.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बुधा
Conventional spelling
Odia
ବୁଧ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Budha in Indian usage
2,241 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: 1,378 records (61.5%).
- Recorded as male: 863 records (38.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 296 |
| 1960s | 443 |
| 1970s | 561 |
| 1980s | 446 |
| 1990s | 268 |
| Other decades | 227 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 1,295 |
| Sikkim | 597 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 115 |
| Mizoram | 105 |
| Other states | 129 |
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)
- Monier-Williams, buddha, p. 733,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.