MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Dashrath mean?
Daśaratha is Rama's father in the Ramayana, with daśa meaning ten and ratha meaning chariot in the literal compound. Daśa, ten, joins ratha, chariot, in the literary name.
Pronunciation
IAST: daśaratha
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
दशरथ
Letter-by-letter: daśaratha
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Dashrath in Indian usage
149,267 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling दशरथ.
Mostly recorded for boys (97.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 3,491 records (2.3%).
- Recorded as male: 145,776 records (97.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 2,621 |
| 1940s | 8,339 |
| 1950s | 17,423 |
| 1960s | 27,779 |
| 1970s | 33,120 |
| 1980s | 35,280 |
| 1990s | 24,271 |
| Other decades | 434 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 43,229 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 35,093 |
| Bihar | 34,223 |
| Jharkhand | 19,300 |
| Rajasthan | 14,257 |
| Maharashtra | 1,595 |
| Haryana | 1,138 |
| Uttarakhand | 432 |
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, daśaratha, p. 472,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.