MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Dharmendra mean?
Dharmendra joins dharma with indra in the chief sense and is recorded as a title associated with Yama. Dharam is the vernacular form of the first compound member.
Pronunciation
IAST: dharmendra
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
धर्मेन्द्र
Letter-by-letter: dharmendra
Conventional spelling
Odia
ଧର୍ମେନ୍ଦ୍ର
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
धर्मेंद्र
Letter-by-letter: dharmeṃdra
11,492 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
धरमेन्द्र
Letter-by-letter: dharamendra
7,613 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Dharmendra in Indian usage
377,867 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,548 records (0.4%).
- Recorded as male: 376,319 records (99.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 201 |
| 1940s | 373 |
| 1950s | 1,316 |
| 1960s | 10,388 |
| 1970s | 51,591 |
| 1980s | 154,624 |
| 1990s | 159,223 |
| Other decades | 151 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 230,139 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 70,282 |
| Rajasthan | 26,066 |
| Haryana | 14,573 |
| Jharkhand | 13,432 |
| Bihar | 9,019 |
| Uttarakhand | 6,378 |
| Odisha | 2,312 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,901 |
| Delhi | 1,295 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 694 |
| Tripura | 497 |
| Assam | 325 |
| Chandigarh | 249 |
| Meghalaya | 127 |
| Goa | 116 |
| Other states | 462 |
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, dharmendra, p. 512,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: धर्मेंद्र ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.