MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Dhira mean?
Dhira is a Sanskrit adjective for someone steady, courageous or composed. A separately attested sense of the same form is intelligent or wise, so both firmness and understanding belong to its meaning.
Pronunciation
IAST: dhīrā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
धीरा
Letter-by-letter: dhīrā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Dhira in Indian usage
6,166 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 1,651 records (26.8%).
- Recorded as male: 4,515 records (73.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 509 |
| 1950s | 987 |
| 1960s | 1,554 |
| 1970s | 1,396 |
| 1980s | 1,029 |
| 1990s | 464 |
| Other decades | 227 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 1,680 |
| Punjab | 1,053 |
| Haryana | 974 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 908 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 604 |
| Odisha | 341 |
| Bihar | 292 |
| Jharkhand | 139 |
| Other states | 175 |
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, dhīra, p. 517,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.