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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Dipankar

Maker of light; Dipankara Buddha

Dipankar means “Maker of light; Dipankara Buddha”.

Origin language
Bengali / Sanskrit
First letter
D
Historical records
2,393

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Dipankar mean?

Dipankar comes from dīpaṅkara, a maker of light. Dipankara is the name of an earlier Buddha in Buddhist narrative. He predicts Gautama Buddha's future awakening.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

दीपंकर

Conventional spelling

Bengali

দীপঙ্কর

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Dipankar in Indian usage

2,393 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Dipankar: records by birth decade1970s: 3721970s1980s: 9111980s1990s: 9731990sOther decades: 137Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1970s372
1980s911
1990s973
Other decades137

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Tripura1,972
Assam302
Other states119
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, dīpaṃkara, p. 481,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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