MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Dayanand mean?
Dayanand joins dayā, compassion, with ānanda, bliss. The vowel combination produces dayānanda, a name linking the act of caring with joy.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
दयानन्द
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Dayanand in Indian usage
28,736 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 130 records (0.5%).
- Recorded as male: 28,606 records (99.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,639 |
| 1950s | 3,348 |
| 1960s | 5,264 |
| 1970s | 6,653 |
| 1980s | 7,195 |
| 1990s | 4,053 |
| Other decades | 584 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 10,347 |
| Bihar | 9,213 |
| Haryana | 3,159 |
| Rajasthan | 2,449 |
| Jharkhand | 1,896 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 919 |
| Uttarakhand | 473 |
| Tripura | 119 |
| Other states | 161 |
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, ānanda, p. 139,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, dayā, p. 469,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.