MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Jagannath mean?
Jagannātha joins jagat, world, and nātha, lord. The deity worshipped at Puri gives the name a specific Krishna-Vishnu association, especially in the Rath Yatra tradition.
Pronunciation
IAST: jagannātha
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
जगन्नाथ
Letter-by-letter: jagannātha
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Jagannath in Indian usage
74,740 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 577 records (0.8%).
- Recorded as male: 74,163 records (99.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 4,322 |
| 1940s | 10,903 |
| 1950s | 15,040 |
| 1960s | 15,270 |
| 1970s | 13,116 |
| 1980s | 10,533 |
| 1990s | 4,539 |
| Other decades | 1,017 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 23,424 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 22,648 |
| Bihar | 8,783 |
| Rajasthan | 7,671 |
| Jharkhand | 6,672 |
| Assam | 1,250 |
| Maharashtra | 961 |
| Haryana | 707 |
| Delhi | 679 |
| Uttarakhand | 527 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 377 |
| Tripura | 348 |
| Goa | 314 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 212 |
| Other states | 167 |
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, jagannātha, p. 408,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.