MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Damodar mean?
Dāmodara joins dāman, cord, with udara, belly. It evokes the childhood Krishna narrative in which Yashoda binds him with a rope. Yashoda is Krishna's foster mother in the childhood stories behind the name.
Pronunciation
IAST: dāmodara
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
दामोदर
Letter-by-letter: dāmodara
Conventional spelling
Odia
ଦାମୋଦର
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Damodar in Indian usage
59,794 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (92.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 4,559 records (7.6%).
- Recorded as male: 55,235 records (92.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 2,080 |
| 1940s | 4,946 |
| 1950s | 8,995 |
| 1960s | 12,550 |
| 1970s | 12,967 |
| 1980s | 11,439 |
| 1990s | 6,347 |
| Other decades | 470 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 10,527 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 9,529 |
| Rajasthan | 8,465 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 7,545 |
| Odisha | 7,067 |
| Maharashtra | 6,001 |
| Jharkhand | 5,854 |
| Goa | 1,700 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 1,242 |
| Delhi | 593 |
| Uttarakhand | 574 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 194 |
| Haryana | 189 |
| Other states | 314 |
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, dāmodara, p. 474,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.