MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Hiradesh mean?
Hiradesh is a vernacular form of Hridayesh, joining hridaya, “heart”, with isha, “lord”. Northern speech often reduces the heart word to hird or hirad in personal names and everyday expressions.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
हिरदेश
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
हिर्देश
Letter-by-letter: hirdeśa
514 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Hiradesh in Indian usage
3,346 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 808 records (24.1%).
- Recorded as male: 2,538 records (75.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 273 |
| 1970s | 562 |
| 1980s | 1,137 |
| 1990s | 1,258 |
| Other decades | 116 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,235 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 810 |
| Bihar | 118 |
| Other states | 183 |
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, hṛdayeśa, p. 1303,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, hṛdaya, p. 1302,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.