MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Jaydev mean?
Jaya, “victory”, combines with deva, “god”, in Jaydev. The medieval poet Jayadeva composed the Gita Govinda, a lyrical work centred on Krishna and Radha.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
जयदेव
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Jaydev in Indian usage
13,736 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling जयदेव.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 497 |
| 1950s | 1,110 |
| 1960s | 2,141 |
| 1970s | 2,920 |
| 1980s | 3,902 |
| 1990s | 3,054 |
| Other decades | 112 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Jharkhand | 4,493 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,620 |
| Bihar | 1,466 |
| Rajasthan | 1,364 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,236 |
| Haryana | 944 |
| Uttarakhand | 613 |
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, jaya, p. 412,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, deva, p. 492,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.