MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Mathura mean?
Mathura is the Yamuna-side city associated with Krishna's birth narrative. The city is part of the Braj region evoked in many Krishna-related names. Krishna's birth parents in the Mathura narrative are Devaki and Vasudeva.
Pronunciation
IAST: mathurā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
मथुरा
Letter-by-letter: mathurā
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
मथूरा
Letter-by-letter: mathūrā
5,780 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
मथुूरा
Letter-by-letter: mathuūrā
570 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Mathura in Indian usage
52,740 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 18,622 records (35.3%).
- Recorded as male: 34,118 records (64.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 3,149 |
| 1940s | 7,754 |
| 1950s | 10,961 |
| 1960s | 12,093 |
| 1970s | 9,442 |
| 1980s | 5,985 |
| 1990s | 2,670 |
| Other decades | 686 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 12,855 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 10,895 |
| Bihar | 7,235 |
| Odisha | 6,929 |
| Rajasthan | 6,301 |
| Jharkhand | 4,953 |
| Uttarakhand | 2,341 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 563 |
| Haryana | 311 |
| Punjab | 166 |
| Other states | 191 |
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, mathurā, p. 777,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.