MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Devraj mean?
Deva and rāja combine to describe the ruler of the gods. Devraj is a traditional epithet of Indra in Sanskrit literature.
Pronunciation
IAST: devarāja
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
देवराज
Letter-by-letter: devarāja
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Devraj in Indian usage
40,181 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 817 records (2%).
- Recorded as male: 39,364 records (98%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 716 |
| 1940s | 2,032 |
| 1950s | 3,541 |
| 1960s | 5,855 |
| 1970s | 7,415 |
| 1980s | 10,285 |
| 1990s | 10,170 |
| Other decades | 167 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 16,544 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 6,465 |
| Rajasthan | 5,902 |
| Bihar | 3,557 |
| Jharkhand | 1,487 |
| Haryana | 1,443 |
| Maharashtra | 848 |
| Uttarakhand | 825 |
| Kerala | 808 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 756 |
| Punjab | 694 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 481 |
| Puducherry | 235 |
| Other states | 136 |
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, devarāja, p. 494,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.