MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Dambaru mean?
Dambaru is the Odia name-form of damaru, the small hourglass-shaped drum. Shiva holds this drum in his dancing form, giving the object-name a strong devotional association. The drum also appears in the ritual music of some Buddhist mendicant traditions.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
डम्बरु
Conventional spelling
Odia
ଡମ୍ବରୁ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Dambaru in Indian usage
3,594 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (81.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 657 records (18.3%).
- Recorded as male: 2,937 records (81.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 212 |
| 1950s | 481 |
| 1960s | 703 |
| 1970s | 843 |
| 1980s | 807 |
| 1990s | 438 |
| Other decades | 110 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Other states | 3,594 |
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, ḍamaru, p. 430,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.