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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Divakar

sun; maker of the day

Divakar means “sun; maker of the day”.

Origin language
Sanskrit
First letter
D
Historical records
56,233

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Divakar mean?

Divākara combines divā, day, and kara, maker. The complete compound is a poetic sun name, comparable in imagery to Dinkar.

Pronunciation

IAST: divākara

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

दिवाकर

Letter-by-letter: divākara

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Divakar in Indian usage

56,233 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for boys (95.8%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 2,368 records (4.2%).
  • Recorded as male: 53,865 records (95.8%).

By birth decade

Divakar: records by birth decade1930s: 3781930s1940s: 1,1431940s1950s: 2,8851950s1960s: 6,0791960s1970s: 10,6801970s1980s: 17,6311980s1990s: 17,3351990sOther decades: 102Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1930s378
1940s1,143
1950s2,885
1960s6,079
1970s10,680
1980s17,631
1990s17,335
Other decades102

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Uttar Pradesh20,631
Bihar15,792
Jharkhand5,261
Madhya Pradesh4,267
Maharashtra3,802
Andhra Pradesh1,866
Gujarat1,149
Uttarakhand1,116
Rajasthan911
Haryana607
Himachal Pradesh257
Punjab196
Goa138
Delhi100
Other states140
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, divākara, p. 478,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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