MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Muralidharan mean?
Muralidharan is a southern personal-name form of Muralidhara. Sanskrit muralī, flute, and dhara, bearer, give the literal flute-bearer sense. The whole word is a title of Krishna.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
मुरलीधरन
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
മുരളീധരൻ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Muralidharan in Indian usage
23,044 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 231 records (1%).
- Recorded as male: 22,813 records (99%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,200 |
| 1950s | 5,698 |
| 1960s | 9,918 |
| 1970s | 4,862 |
| 1980s | 1,036 |
| 1990s | 211 |
| Other decades | 119 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 22,252 |
| Maharashtra | 363 |
| Puducherry | 257 |
| Other states | 172 |
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, muralīdhara, p. 823,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: முரளீதரன் ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Wiktionary: मुरली ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Wiktionary: धर ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.