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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Janardana

Vishnu or Krishna; agitator of people

Janardana means “Vishnu or Krishna; agitator of people”.

Origin language
Sanskrit
First letter
J
Historical records
50,546

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Janardana mean?

Janardana is an established divine epithet of Vishnu and Krishna. Its Sanskrit formation joins jana, people, with a root conveying stirring or agitating.

Pronunciation

IAST: janārdana

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

जनार्दन

Letter-by-letter: janārdana

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Janardana in Indian usage

50,546 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for boys (99.1%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 478 records (0.9%).
  • Recorded as male: 50,068 records (99.1%).

By birth decade

Janardana: records by birth decade1930s: 1,3031930s1940s: 4,5261940s1950s: 9,1531950s1960s: 12,5651960s1970s: 11,6941970s1980s: 7,8051980s1990s: 3,2481990sOther decades: 252Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1930s1,303
1940s4,526
1950s9,153
1960s12,565
1970s11,694
1980s7,805
1990s3,248
Other decades252

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Bihar20,387
Uttar Pradesh19,830
Jharkhand4,040
Andhra Pradesh1,904
Madhya Pradesh1,383
Delhi558
Uttarakhand554
Maharashtra509
Rajasthan398
Assam251
Tripura200
Haryana197
Goa154
Other states181
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, janārdana, p. 410,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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