MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Madhuri mean?
Mādhurī is an abstract sweetness noun related to madhura, sweet, and can describe pleasantness in speech or art. The base madhura describes sweetness of taste and can extend to pleasant sound.
Pronunciation
IAST: mādhurī
Meaning themes
sweetness
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
माधुरी
Letter-by-letter: mādhurī
Conventional spelling
Tamil
மாதுரி
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Madhuri in Indian usage
216,341 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (98.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 213,931 records (98.9%).
- Recorded as male: 2,410 records (1.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,520 |
| 1940s | 5,491 |
| 1950s | 14,695 |
| 1960s | 35,703 |
| 1970s | 49,288 |
| 1980s | 58,881 |
| 1990s | 50,416 |
| Other decades | 347 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 110,000 |
| Bihar | 44,915 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 20,588 |
| Jharkhand | 11,846 |
| Odisha | 7,329 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 6,635 |
| Rajasthan | 3,993 |
| Karnataka | 2,121 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,928 |
| Haryana | 1,424 |
| Tripura | 1,230 |
| Maharashtra | 800 |
| Punjab | 741 |
| Delhi | 569 |
| Kerala | 558 |
| Goa | 545 |
| Assam | 372 |
| Chandigarh | 188 |
| Meghalaya | 159 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 113 |
| Other states | 287 |
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, mādhurī, p. 808,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Behind the Name: Madhuri ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.