MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Chidanand mean?
Chidanand brings together cit, consciousness, and ananda, bliss. In Vedantic language, the compound describes the joy inherent in awareness and occurs in descriptions of ultimate reality.
Pronunciation
IAST: cidānanda
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
चिदानन्द
Letter-by-letter: cidānanda
Conventional spelling
Kannada
ಚಿದಾನಂದ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Chidanand in Indian usage
7,442 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 443 |
| 1960s | 1,141 |
| 1970s | 1,883 |
| 1980s | 2,439 |
| 1990s | 1,394 |
| Other decades | 142 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Other states | 7,442 |
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, cidānanda, p. 397,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.