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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Draupadi

Daughter of Drupada; Draupadi

Draupadi means “Daughter of Drupada; Draupadi”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Kannada
First letter
D
Historical records
1,970

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Draupadi mean?

Draupadi is a Sanskrit patronymic identifying the daughter of King Drupada. In the Mahabharata she is the wife of the five Pandava brothers. She is also called Krishnaa, a name used for her in the epic.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

द्रौपदी

Conventional spelling

Kannada

ದ್ರೌಪದಿ

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Draupadi in Indian usage

1,970 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Draupadi: records by birth decade1940s: 3491940s1950s: 4551950s1960s: 4231960s1970s: 3101970s1980s: 1821980sOther decades: 251Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1940s349
1950s455
1960s423
1970s310
1980s182
Other decades251

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Karnataka1,635
Goa207
Other states128
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, draupadī, p. 503,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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