MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Laldev mean?
Laldev joins lāl, “dear or beloved”, with deva, “god”. Lal is an affectionate noun in Hindi, distinct from its everyday colour sense of red.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
लालदेव
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Laldev in Indian usage
12,332 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 116 records (0.9%).
- Recorded as male: 12,216 records (99.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 728 |
| 1950s | 1,759 |
| 1960s | 2,753 |
| 1970s | 3,079 |
| 1980s | 2,472 |
| 1990s | 1,260 |
| Other decades | 281 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 7,240 |
| Jharkhand | 3,835 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 811 |
| Other states | 446 |
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
- Wiktionary: लाल ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, deva, p. 492,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.