MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Mayur mean?
Mayura is the Sanskrit word for the peacock, a familiar bird in Indian poetry and art. The everyday Hindi mor descends from the same older word, while Mayur retains its literary form as a personal name.
Pronunciation
IAST: mayūra
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
मयूर
Letter-by-letter: mayūra
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Mayur in Indian usage
8,607 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (96%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 341 records (4%).
- Recorded as male: 8,266 records (96%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 184 |
| 1970s | 476 |
| 1980s | 2,849 |
| 1990s | 4,946 |
| Other decades | 152 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 3,245 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,374 |
| Rajasthan | 1,344 |
| Goa | 543 |
| Maharashtra | 367 |
| Delhi | 269 |
| Haryana | 267 |
| Uttarakhand | 213 |
| Bihar | 191 |
| Jharkhand | 187 |
| Assam | 172 |
| Other states | 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
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, mayūra, p. 789,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.