MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Lingaraj mean?
Lingaraj is a name of Shiva as lord of the linga, his sacred emblem. The Lingaraj temple in Bhubaneswar gives the name a major Odia devotional and architectural referent.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
लिंगराज
Conventional spelling
Odia
ଲିଙ୍ଗରାଜ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Lingaraj in Indian usage
7,530 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (83.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,250 records (16.6%).
- Recorded as male: 6,280 records (83.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 460 |
| 1950s | 917 |
| 1960s | 1,262 |
| 1970s | 1,699 |
| 1980s | 1,688 |
| 1990s | 1,162 |
| Other decades | 342 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 7,530 |
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, liṅga, p. 901,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, rājan, p. 874,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.