MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Devendra mean?
Devendra contracts deva and indra into a whole compound, whose chief sense avoids the misleading reading god plus sky god. Devinder is a regional form of this chief-of-gods name. In Vedic imagery Indra wields the thunderbolt, called the vajra.
Pronunciation
IAST: devendra
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
देवेन्द्र
Letter-by-letter: devendra
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
देवेंद्र
Letter-by-letter: deveṃdra
25,901 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Devendra in Indian usage
380,080 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (97.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 7,984 records (2.1%).
- Recorded as male: 372,096 records (97.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,410 |
| 1940s | 6,339 |
| 1950s | 19,503 |
| 1960s | 47,858 |
| 1970s | 80,812 |
| 1980s | 123,972 |
| 1990s | 99,841 |
| Other decades | 345 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 162,724 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 67,593 |
| Bihar | 41,752 |
| Rajasthan | 34,798 |
| Haryana | 24,882 |
| Uttarakhand | 19,903 |
| Jharkhand | 9,872 |
| Maharashtra | 7,946 |
| Delhi | 4,328 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 2,968 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 2,052 |
| Goa | 639 |
| Chandigarh | 160 |
| Gujarat | 155 |
| Other states | 308 |
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
- Wiktionary: Devendra ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Wiktionary: देवेंद्र ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.