MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Deba mean?
Odia Deba continues Sanskrit deva, the word for a god. It also serves as a short personal name within the longer Deba compounds used in Odisha.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
देबा
Conventional spelling
Odia
ଦେବା
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Deba in Indian usage
4,581 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (81.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 836 records (18.2%).
- Recorded as male: 3,745 records (81.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 207 |
| 1950s | 421 |
| 1960s | 746 |
| 1970s | 1,016 |
| 1980s | 1,204 |
| 1990s | 886 |
| Other decades | 101 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 2,328 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 481 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 379 |
| Assam | 372 |
| Bihar | 256 |
| Punjab | 255 |
| Jharkhand | 238 |
| Haryana | 113 |
| Other states | 159 |
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.