MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Madhavan mean?
Madhavan is the southern masculine form of Madhava, a name of Krishna and Vishnu. The Sanskrit name refers to descent from Madhu and also has a separate springtime sense. Tamil and Malayalam use this masculine form widely in personal naming.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
माधवन
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
മാധവൻ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Madhavan in Indian usage
14,281 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 299 |
| 1930s | 1,982 |
| 1940s | 3,937 |
| 1950s | 4,175 |
| 1960s | 2,362 |
| 1970s | 1,032 |
| 1980s | 344 |
| Other decades | 150 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 13,870 |
| Puducherry | 261 |
| Other states | 150 |
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, mādhava, p. 808,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.