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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Dharamavir

Hero of dharma

Dharamavir means “Hero of dharma”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Punjabi
First letter
D
Historical records
10,848

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Dharamavir mean?

Dharamavir combines dharam, duty or right conduct, with vir, hero. The compound presents courage in the service of an ethical or sacred duty.

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

धर्मवीर

Conventional spelling

Gurmukhi

ਧਰਮਵੀਰ

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Dharamavir in Indian usage

10,848 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for boys (98.9%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 122 records (1.1%).
  • Recorded as male: 10,726 records (98.9%).

By birth decade

Dharamavir: records by birth decade1950s: 6761950s1960s: 1,4151960s1970s: 2,2131970s1980s: 3,4581980s1990s: 2,6871990sOther decades: 399Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1950s676
1960s1,415
1970s2,213
1980s3,458
1990s2,687
Other decades399

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Punjab4,413
Uttar Pradesh3,193
Haryana925
Bihar866
Rajasthan644
Madhya Pradesh478
Jharkhand148
Other states181
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, dharma, p. 510,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  3. Monier-Williams, dharmavīra, p. 1329,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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