MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kaveri mean?
The Kaveri is a major river flowing through Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Its personification as a goddess gives the river name a devotional use as a girl's name.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कावेरी
Conventional spelling
Tamil
காவேரி
Conventional spelling
Kannada
ಕಾವೇರಿ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kaveri in Indian usage
9,944 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (96.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 9,634 records (96.9%).
- Recorded as male: 310 records (3.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 373 |
| 1950s | 570 |
| 1960s | 891 |
| 1970s | 1,289 |
| 1980s | 2,894 |
| 1990s | 3,696 |
| Other decades | 231 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Karnataka | 4,281 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,158 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 915 |
| Kerala | 762 |
| Maharashtra | 576 |
| Rajasthan | 536 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 526 |
| Jharkhand | 370 |
| Bihar | 316 |
| Puducherry | 184 |
| Other states | 320 |
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, kāverī, p. 280,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: कावेरी ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.