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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Madev

Shiva; the great god; Vishnu

Madev means “Shiva; the great god; Vishnu”.

Origin language
Kannada / Sanskrit
First letter
M
Historical records
2,653

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Madev mean?

Madev is a Kannada vernacular form of Mahadev, the great god. Mahadeva is a central epithet of Shiva. Older Sanskrit texts also use the complete title for Vishnu.

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

मादेव

Conventional spelling

Kannada

ಮಾದೇವ

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Madev in Indian usage

2,653 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Madev: records by birth decade1950s: 3001950s1960s: 5621960s1970s: 6831970s1980s: 7011980s1990s: 2681990sOther decades: 139Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1950s300
1960s562
1970s683
1980s701
1990s268
Other decades139

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Other states2,653
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, mahādeva, p. 796,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.