MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Mahendra mean?
Mahā, great, combines with Indra to form the deity title Mahendra. Indra is associated in Sanskrit tradition with rain and the thunderbolt.
Pronunciation
IAST: mahendra
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
महेन्द्र
Letter-by-letter: mahendra
Conventional spelling
Odia
ମହେନ୍ଦ୍ର
Conventional spelling
Bengali
মহেন্দ্র
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
महेंद्र
Letter-by-letter: maheṃdra
87,438 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Mahendra in Indian usage
773,413 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 13,655 records (1.8%).
- Recorded as male: 759,758 records (98.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 1,813 |
| 1930s | 8,602 |
| 1940s | 31,517 |
| 1950s | 75,710 |
| 1960s | 130,710 |
| 1970s | 177,395 |
| 1980s | 197,056 |
| 1990s | 150,367 |
| Other decades | 243 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 241,458 |
| Rajasthan | 155,104 |
| Bihar | 124,804 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 79,973 |
| Haryana | 50,059 |
| Jharkhand | 42,907 |
| Odisha | 35,758 |
| Uttarakhand | 19,528 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 7,054 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 4,739 |
| Delhi | 4,334 |
| Assam | 4,276 |
| Maharashtra | 923 |
| Goa | 668 |
| Tripura | 587 |
| Chandigarh | 239 |
| Sikkim | 234 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 141 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 135 |
| Kerala | 134 |
| Other states | 358 |
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, mahendra, p. 802,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Behind the Name: Mahendra ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.