MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kapiladev mean?
Kapiladev joins Kapila, the sage associated with Samkhya philosophy, to deva, a word of divine honour. Kapila also means tawny or reddish in Sanskrit, giving the sage's name a separate colour sense.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कपिलदेव
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kapiladev in Indian usage
28,584 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 166 records (0.6%).
- Recorded as male: 28,418 records (99.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,086 |
| 1940s | 3,069 |
| 1950s | 5,381 |
| 1960s | 6,456 |
| 1970s | 5,557 |
| 1980s | 4,609 |
| 1990s | 2,222 |
| Other decades | 204 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 16,844 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 8,410 |
| Jharkhand | 2,266 |
| Rajasthan | 505 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 370 |
| Other states | 189 |
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, kapila, p. 250,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.