MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Chandradev mean?
Chandradev combines candra, moon, with deva, deity. The moon is itself personified as a god in Sanskrit tradition, making the compound a direct celestial invocation.
Pronunciation
IAST: candradeva
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
चन्द्रदेव
Letter-by-letter: candradeva
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
चंद्रदेव
Letter-by-letter: caṃdradeva
5,064 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Chandradev in Indian usage
21,117 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 125 records (0.6%).
- Recorded as male: 20,992 records (99.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 973 |
| 1940s | 2,748 |
| 1950s | 4,267 |
| 1960s | 4,756 |
| 1970s | 3,949 |
| 1980s | 2,883 |
| 1990s | 1,301 |
| Other decades | 240 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 10,962 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 6,295 |
| Jharkhand | 3,559 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 171 |
| Other states | 130 |
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, candra, p. 386,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, deva, p. 492,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.