MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Dharmavati mean?
Dharmavati is the feminine form of dharmavat, endowed with dharma. In this name, dharma refers to righteousness, duty, or right conduct, giving the adjective its ethical meaning.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
धर्मवती
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
धर्मावती
Letter-by-letter: dharmāvatī
9,711 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Dharmavati in Indian usage
31,711 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 31,547 records (99.5%).
- Recorded as male: 164 records (0.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,491 |
| 1950s | 3,676 |
| 1960s | 7,419 |
| 1970s | 7,464 |
| 1980s | 7,217 |
| 1990s | 3,894 |
| Other decades | 550 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 23,013 |
| Bihar | 3,992 |
| Haryana | 2,161 |
| Rajasthan | 1,093 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 863 |
| Uttarakhand | 436 |
| Other states | 153 |
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, dharmavat, p. 511,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.