MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kamadeb mean?
Kamadeb is the Odia form of Kamadeva, joining kāma, desire or love, with deva, god. Indian stories give the god of love a sugarcane bow. His arrows are made of flowers, a recurring image in poetry.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कामदेब
Conventional spelling
Odia
କାମଦେବ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kamadeb in Indian usage
2,390 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (81.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 447 records (18.7%).
- Recorded as male: 1,943 records (81.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 296 |
| 1960s | 461 |
| 1970s | 617 |
| 1980s | 537 |
| 1990s | 276 |
| Other decades | 203 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 2,390 |
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, kāmadeva, p. 272,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.