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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Mukund

Vishnu; sometimes Shiva

Mukund means “Vishnu; sometimes Shiva”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Hindi
First letter
M
Historical records
10,516

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Mukund mean?

Mukund is an established name of Vishnu in Sanskrit literature. The same epithet is sometimes transferred to Shiva, preserving a second divine use.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

मुकुन्द

Conventional spelling

Devanagari

मुकुंद

Letter-by-letter: mukuṃda

3,350 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Mukund in Indian usage

10,516 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: 187 records (1.8%).
  • Recorded as male: 10,329 records (98.2%).

By birth decade

Mukund: records by birth decade1940s: 6261940s1950s: 1,0371950s1960s: 1,5631960s1970s: 2,0031970s1980s: 3,0031980s1990s: 1,9811990sOther decades: 303Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1940s626
1950s1,037
1960s1,563
1970s2,003
1980s3,003
1990s1,981
Other decades303

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Uttar Pradesh2,684
Bihar2,660
Jharkhand1,329
Assam1,012
Madhya Pradesh996
Goa466
Rajasthan343
Tripura323
Delhi255
Uttarakhand213
Andhra Pradesh102
Other states133
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, mukunda, p. 819,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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