MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kalavva mean?
Kalavva joins the local Kali-name with Kannada avva, mother or respected woman. Kali is the fierce goddess whose name is connected with darkness and time, giving the compound a specific divine focus.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
काळव्वा
Conventional spelling
Kannada
ಕಾಳವ್ವ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kalavva in Indian usage
2,346 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 187 |
| 1940s | 355 |
| 1950s | 471 |
| 1960s | 485 |
| 1970s | 435 |
| 1980s | 306 |
| Other decades | 107 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Karnataka | 2,346 |
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, kāla, p. 278,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, kālī, p. 277,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.