MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Mrityunjay mean?
Mrityunjay is built from mṛtyu, death, and jaya, conquest. The whole Sanskrit word is a name of Shiva. It also names the Vedic verse traditionally called the Mrityunjaya mantra.
Pronunciation
IAST: mṛtyuñjaya
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
मृत्युंजय
Letter-by-letter: mṛtyuñjaya
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
मृत्युन्जय
Letter-by-letter: mṛtyunjaya
5,482 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Mrityunjay in Indian usage
19,298 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 142 records (0.7%).
- Recorded as male: 19,156 records (99.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 567 |
| 1960s | 1,880 |
| 1970s | 5,137 |
| 1980s | 6,643 |
| 1990s | 4,796 |
| Other decades | 275 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 13,673 |
| Jharkhand | 2,804 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,240 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 359 |
| Other states | 222 |
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, mṛtyuṃjaya, p. 828,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.