MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Mahalakshmi mean?
Mahalakshmi combines mahā, great, with Lakshmi’s name. The whole Sanskrit expression identifies the divine power of Vishnu. Some Sanskrit traditions also apply the title to Durga or Saraswati.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
महालक्ष्मी
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
മഹാലക്ഷ്മി
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Mahalakshmi in Indian usage
32,080 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (92.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 29,763 records (92.8%).
- Recorded as male: 2,317 records (7.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 778 |
| 1940s | 2,528 |
| 1950s | 3,912 |
| 1960s | 4,969 |
| 1970s | 5,816 |
| 1980s | 8,613 |
| 1990s | 5,349 |
| Other decades | 115 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Andhra Pradesh | 29,472 |
| Puducherry | 1,781 |
| Other states | 827 |
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, mahālakṣmī, p. 800,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, lakṣmī, p. 892,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wisdom Library: Mahalakshmi (Monier-Williams, Apte, Shabda-Sagara) ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Behind the Name: Lakshmi ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Wiktionary: mahā (great, in compounds) ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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