MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Mahavir mean?
Mahāvīra combines mahā, great, with vīra, hero. The name also identifies the last Tirthankara in Jain tradition.
Pronunciation
IAST: mahāvīra
Meaning themes
heroismjain tradition
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
महावीर
Letter-by-letter: mahāvīra
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਮਹਾਵੀਰ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Mahavir in Indian usage
211,667 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 938 records (0.4%).
- Recorded as male: 210,729 records (99.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 5,379 |
| 1940s | 15,193 |
| 1950s | 28,687 |
| 1960s | 42,044 |
| 1970s | 42,714 |
| 1980s | 47,427 |
| 1990s | 29,074 |
| Other decades | 1,149 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 88,181 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 52,707 |
| Bihar | 18,226 |
| Haryana | 17,197 |
| Jharkhand | 15,461 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 10,003 |
| Uttarakhand | 5,743 |
| Punjab | 2,814 |
| Delhi | 443 |
| Maharashtra | 276 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 240 |
| Chandigarh | 205 |
| Other states | 171 |
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, mahāvīra, p. 800,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.