MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Deben mean?
Deben is an eastern Indian shortened form of Debendra. The Sanskrit source Devendra is a title meaning chief of the gods, applied to Indra and also to Shiva.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
देबेन
Conventional spelling
Bengali
দেবেন
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Deben in Indian usage
4,001 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 360 |
| 1950s | 694 |
| 1960s | 959 |
| 1970s | 914 |
| 1980s | 530 |
| 1990s | 347 |
| Other decades | 197 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Assam | 3,516 |
| Jharkhand | 217 |
| Other states | 268 |
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)
- Monier-Williams, indra, p. 166,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, devendra, p. 495,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.