MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Godavari mean?
Godavari is the Sanskrit name of the major river of the Deccan. Its traditional dictionary explanation is granting water or cattle. The river appears in the Ramayana and other Sanskrit literature, giving the personal name a geographic and literary setting.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गोदावरी
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Godavari in Indian usage
27,292 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 27,060 records (99.1%).
- Recorded as male: 232 records (0.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,939 |
| 1940s | 3,632 |
| 1950s | 4,837 |
| 1960s | 6,326 |
| 1970s | 4,783 |
| 1980s | 3,462 |
| 1990s | 1,813 |
| Other decades | 500 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 7,710 |
| Bihar | 5,677 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 5,387 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 4,025 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,722 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 959 |
| Jharkhand | 801 |
| Maharashtra | 432 |
| Haryana | 330 |
| Other states | 249 |
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, godāvarī, p. 365,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.