MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Gangadharan mean?
Gangadharan is a southern form of Gangadhara, “bearer of the Ganges”. It names Shiva, whose hair receives the descending river in the traditional narrative.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गंगाधरन
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
ഗംഗാധരൻ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Gangadharan in Indian usage
12,949 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 909 |
| 1940s | 2,801 |
| 1950s | 4,258 |
| 1960s | 3,267 |
| 1970s | 1,379 |
| 1980s | 176 |
| Other decades | 159 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 12,779 |
| Other states | 170 |
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, gaṅgādhara, p. 341,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: गङ्गाधर ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Wiktionary: गंगाधर ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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