MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Namadev mean?
Namadev brings together nama, name, and deva, god, expressing the importance of the divine name. Namdev is also the Marathi bhakti poet devoted to Vithoba whose hymns appear in the Guru Granth Sahib.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
नामदेव
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Namadev in Indian usage
8,404 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (84.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,328 records (15.8%).
- Recorded as male: 7,076 records (84.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 714 |
| 1950s | 1,345 |
| 1960s | 1,881 |
| 1970s | 2,054 |
| 1980s | 1,434 |
| 1990s | 615 |
| Other decades | 361 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Maharashtra | 3,826 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 3,764 |
| Punjab | 322 |
| Gujarat | 185 |
| Other states | 307 |
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, nāman, p. 536,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, deva, p. 492,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.