MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Narendra mean?
Nara denotes a person and indra adds the sense of lord or chief. Sanskrit literature uses the complete word narendra for a king or prince.
Pronunciation
IAST: narendra
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
नरेन्द्र
Letter-by-letter: narendra
Conventional spelling
Odia
ନରେନ୍ଦ୍ର
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
नरेंद्र
Letter-by-letter: nareṃdra
22,562 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Narendra in Indian usage
50,348 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 13,346 records (26.5%).
- Recorded as male: 37,002 records (73.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 485 |
| 1940s | 1,320 |
| 1950s | 3,466 |
| 1960s | 5,873 |
| 1970s | 8,488 |
| 1980s | 11,101 |
| 1990s | 19,417 |
| Other decades | 198 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 34,957 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 11,564 |
| Delhi | 2,697 |
| Goa | 574 |
| Kerala | 106 |
| Other states | 450 |
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, narendra, p. 529,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.