MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kamadev mean?
Kamadeva personifies love and desire in Sanskrit literature. The name combines kama, desire, with deva, god. Sanskrit dictionaries also record Kamadeva as a title of Vishnu and Shiva.
Pronunciation
IAST: kāmadeva
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कामदेव
Letter-by-letter: kāmadeva
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kamadev in Indian usage
8,528 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 |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 388 |
| 1950s | 942 |
| 1960s | 1,808 |
| 1970s | 2,199 |
| 1980s | 1,946 |
| 1990s | 1,087 |
| Other decades | 158 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Jharkhand | 4,459 |
| Bihar | 3,828 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 108 |
| Other states | 133 |
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.