MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Dvarika mean?
Dvarika is a conventional form of Dvaraka, Krishna’s city on Gujarat’s coast. The Sanskrit place name carries the image of a city with many gates. Traditional accounts describe the city as having been submerged by the sea.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
द्वारिका
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Dvarika in Indian usage
33,644 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (90%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 3,380 records (10%).
- Recorded as male: 30,264 records (90%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,700 |
| 1940s | 4,178 |
| 1950s | 6,658 |
| 1960s | 7,803 |
| 1970s | 6,479 |
| 1980s | 4,352 |
| 1990s | 2,085 |
| Other decades | 389 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 12,245 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 7,156 |
| Jharkhand | 6,017 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 4,589 |
| Rajasthan | 3,027 |
| Other states | 610 |
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, dvārakā, p. 504,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.