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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Mahadevappa

Mahadeva, Shiva; revered father

Mahadevappa means “Mahadeva, Shiva; revered father”.

Origin language
Kannada / Sanskrit
First letter
M
Historical records
8,435

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Mahadevappa mean?

Mahadevappa joins Mahadeva, the great god Shiva, with Kannada appa, father. The fatherly ending is a conventional respectful part of male names in Karnataka.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

महादेवप्पा

Conventional spelling

Kannada

ಮಹಾದೇವಪ್ಪ

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Mahadevappa in Indian usage

8,435 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Mahadevappa: records by birth decade1940s: 8941940s1950s: 1,6191950s1960s: 1,9061960s1970s: 1,6101970s1980s: 1,3571980s1990s: 6901990sOther decades: 359Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1940s894
1950s1,619
1960s1,906
1970s1,610
1980s1,357
1990s690
Other decades359

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Karnataka8,435
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.

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