MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Deb mean?
Deb is the eastern Indian form of Sanskrit deva, a god or divine being. Odia and Bengali use this shortened form in personal names, including longer compounds with a divine referent.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
देव
Conventional spelling
Odia
ଦେବ
Conventional spelling
Bengali
দেব
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Deb in Indian usage
8,376 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 2,135 records (25.5%).
- Recorded as male: 6,241 records (74.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 381 |
| 1950s | 867 |
| 1960s | 1,440 |
| 1970s | 1,767 |
| 1980s | 2,201 |
| 1990s | 1,568 |
| Other decades | 152 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 8,087 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 106 |
| Other states | 183 |
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, deva, p. 492,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.