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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Jagadamba

Mother of the world; Durga

Jagadamba means “Mother of the world; Durga”.

Origin language
Sanskrit
First letter
J
Historical records
1,912

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Jagadamba mean?

Jagadamba joins jagat, the world, with amba, mother. The title addresses the goddess as the mother of creation and is widely used for Durga. The same mother-goddess title is used in Telugu worship and personal naming.

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

जगदम्बा

Conventional spelling

Telugu

జగదంబ

Conventional spelling

Devanagari

जगदंबा

Letter-by-letter: jagadaṃbā

145 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Jagadamba in Indian usage

1,912 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Jagadamba: records by birth decade1940s: 1551940s1950s: 3201950s1960s: 4661960s1970s: 4871970s1980s: 3081980sOther decades: 176Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1940s155
1950s320
1960s466
1970s487
1980s308
Other decades176

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Other states1,912
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. Monier-Williams, jagadambā, p. 408,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  3. Monier-Williams, jagadambikā, p. 408,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.