MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Gayatri mean?
Gāyatrī names the Vedic metre associated with the Savitr mantra and is also personified as a goddess in later traditions. The Gayatri mantra invokes Savitr, the solar impeller. The metre has three lines of eight syllables in its standard Vedic form.
Pronunciation
IAST: gāyatrī
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गायत्री
Letter-by-letter: gāyatrī
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
ഗായത്രി
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Gayatri in Indian usage
355,881 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 353,271 records (99.3%).
- Recorded as male: 2,610 records (0.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 3,527 |
| 1940s | 12,065 |
| 1950s | 29,226 |
| 1960s | 68,304 |
| 1970s | 84,388 |
| 1980s | 92,872 |
| 1990s | 64,669 |
| Other decades | 830 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 121,068 |
| Bihar | 86,631 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 63,502 |
| Rajasthan | 41,732 |
| Jharkhand | 17,717 |
| Haryana | 6,011 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 5,908 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 4,020 |
| Uttarakhand | 3,807 |
| Delhi | 2,115 |
| Assam | 1,049 |
| Goa | 527 |
| Maharashtra | 457 |
| Tripura | 438 |
| Chandigarh | 292 |
| Kerala | 111 |
| Sikkim | 103 |
| Other states | 393 |
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, gāyatrī, p. 352,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.