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Nagavva

Serpent mother; revered Naga

Nagavva means “Serpent mother; revered Naga”.

Origin language
Kannada / Sanskrit
First letter
N
Historical records
13,381

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Nagavva mean?

Nagavva combines nāga, “serpent”, with the Kannada maternal address avva. Serpent reverence provides the cultural setting for this feminine name in Karnataka.

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

नागव्वा

Conventional spelling

Kannada

ನಾಗವ್ವ

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Nagavva in Indian usage

13,381 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Nagavva: records by birth decade1930s: 6821930s1940s: 1,4881940s1950s: 2,2361950s1960s: 2,7811960s1970s: 2,8721970s1980s: 2,3621980s1990s: 8071990sOther decades: 153Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1930s682
1940s1,488
1950s2,236
1960s2,781
1970s2,872
1980s2,362
1990s807
Other decades153

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Karnataka13,381
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, deva, p. 492,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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