MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Hedayat mean?
Hedayat comes from Arabic hidāya through Persian and Urdu. The noun denotes guidance and can carry a devotional sense of being shown the right path.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
हिदायत
Conventional spelling
Arabic
هدایت
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Hedayat in Indian usage
2,991 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (86%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 419 records (14%).
- Recorded as male: 2,572 records (86%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 242 |
| 1950s | 364 |
| 1960s | 474 |
| 1970s | 534 |
| 1980s | 757 |
| 1990s | 487 |
| Other decades | 133 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,445 |
| Rajasthan | 766 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 234 |
| Haryana | 138 |
| Maharashtra | 133 |
| Bihar | 130 |
| Other states | 145 |
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
- Wiktionary: हिदायत ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.