MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Dinabandhu mean?
Dīna, distressed or needy, combines with bandhu, friend or kinsman. Dinabandhu is a compassionate devotional title also used as a personal name. Sanskrit dinabandhu also names the sun as the friend of day.
Pronunciation
IAST: dīnabandhu
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
दीनबंधु
Letter-by-letter: dīnabandhu
Conventional spelling
Odia
ଦୀନବନ୍ଧୁ
Conventional spelling
Odia
ଦିନବନ୍ଧୁ
23,378 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Dinabandhu in Indian usage
24,474 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (89.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 2,609 records (10.7%).
- Recorded as male: 21,865 records (89.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 597 |
| 1940s | 1,188 |
| 1950s | 2,000 |
| 1960s | 13,007 |
| 1970s | 3,393 |
| 1980s | 2,651 |
| 1990s | 1,497 |
| Other decades | 141 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 23,425 |
| Bihar | 399 |
| Jharkhand | 262 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 123 |
| Assam | 116 |
| Other states | 149 |
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, dīna, p. 480,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, bandhu, p. 721,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, dinabandhu, p. 478,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.