MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Deva mean?
Deva is a personal name from the Sanskrit noun for a god or divine being. Its root div concerns shining and the sky, connecting the divine word with heavenly brightness.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
देवा
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Deva in Indian usage
45,198 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (83.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 7,489 records (16.6%).
- Recorded as male: 37,709 records (83.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,921 |
| 1940s | 4,610 |
| 1950s | 7,420 |
| 1960s | 9,565 |
| 1970s | 8,238 |
| 1980s | 7,217 |
| 1990s | 5,799 |
| Other decades | 428 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 23,203 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 5,797 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 3,724 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,919 |
| Jharkhand | 2,649 |
| Bihar | 2,637 |
| Haryana | 1,463 |
| Punjab | 678 |
| Delhi | 551 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 507 |
| Uttarakhand | 314 |
| Maharashtra | 218 |
| Kerala | 130 |
| Other states | 408 |
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.