MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Dinkar mean?
Dinkar is a Sanskrit epithet of the sun as maker of the day. It joins dina, day, with kara, making or producing.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
दिनकर
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Dinkar in Indian usage
10,845 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (81.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,988 records (18.3%).
- Recorded as male: 8,857 records (81.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 394 |
| 1950s | 881 |
| 1960s | 1,601 |
| 1970s | 2,175 |
| 1980s | 3,051 |
| 1990s | 2,510 |
| Other decades | 233 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Maharashtra | 3,642 |
| Bihar | 2,766 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,488 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,473 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 513 |
| Jharkhand | 246 |
| Rajasthan | 243 |
| Punjab | 107 |
| Haryana | 106 |
| Other states | 261 |
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, dinakara, p. 478,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.