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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Indra

Indra's wife; Indira; beauty

Indra means “Indra's wife; Indira; beauty”.

Origin language
Sanskrit
First letter
I
Historical records
133,035

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Indra mean?

Indra is used as the feminine name इन्द्रा, which Sanskrit records for Indra's wife. It also serves as a form of Indira, a name of Lakshmi meaning beauty or splendour. Indra's wife is known as Shachi or Indrani in Sanskrit literature.

Pronunciation

IAST: indrā

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

इन्द्रा

Letter-by-letter: indrā

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Indra in Indian usage

133,035 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for girls (95.5%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 127,036 records (95.5%).
  • Recorded as male: 5,999 records (4.5%).

By birth decade

Indra: records by birth decade1930s: 1,8961930s1940s: 5,5221940s1950s: 11,8961950s1960s: 28,1541960s1970s: 34,1051970s1980s: 33,2601980s1990s: 17,8191990sOther decades: 383Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1930s1,896
1940s5,522
1950s11,896
1960s28,154
1970s34,105
1980s33,260
1990s17,819
Other decades383

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Rajasthan63,677
Uttar Pradesh18,926
Madhya Pradesh11,736
Bihar6,984
Himachal Pradesh6,434
Haryana6,306
Uttarakhand5,805
Delhi4,467
Odisha2,878
Sikkim1,702
Andhra Pradesh1,334
Jharkhand1,324
Arunachal Pradesh266
Manipur239
Meghalaya153
Chandigarh131
Assam126
Mizoram122
Puducherry103
Nagaland100
Other states222
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Given-name entry (Wikidata): Indra ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Given-name spelling

  3. Monier-Williams, indrā, p. 166,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  4. Monier-Williams, indirā, p. 165,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.