MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Chhedi mean?
Chhedi is related to the Hindi verb chednā, to pierce. It belongs to protective naming traditions associated with a child's ear or nose piercing.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
छेदी
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Chhedi in Indian usage
40,560 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (97.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 948 records (2.3%).
- Recorded as male: 39,612 records (97.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 2,063 |
| 1940s | 5,542 |
| 1950s | 9,278 |
| 1960s | 10,605 |
| 1970s | 7,450 |
| 1980s | 3,981 |
| 1990s | 1,209 |
| Other decades | 432 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 25,615 |
| Bihar | 11,050 |
| Jharkhand | 2,264 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,132 |
| Punjab | 138 |
| Haryana | 133 |
| Other states | 228 |
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
- Crooke, Folk-Lore of Northern India, vol. II, ch. I ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical protective naming, symbolic child-sale names, and nose-piercing names. The regional applications to Bechan, Chhedi and Nathi are editorial readings, not quoted headword definitions.