MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Gadadhar mean?
Gadadhar’s Sanskrit construction describes someone carrying a mace. The whole name is applied to Krishna or Vishnu. It refers to the deity’s weapon Kaumodaki, preserving a specific emblem of divine power.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गदाधर
Conventional spelling
Odia
ଗଦାଧର
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Gadadhar in Indian usage
27,454 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (94.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,423 records (5.2%).
- Recorded as male: 26,031 records (94.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 655 |
| 1950s | 11,378 |
| 1960s | 1,724 |
| 1970s | 11,894 |
| 1980s | 1,027 |
| 1990s | 406 |
| Other decades | 370 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Other states | 27,454 |
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, gadādhara, p. 344,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.