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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Narmada

Giver of delight; the Narmada River

Narmada means “Giver of delight; the Narmada River”.

Origin language
Sanskrit
First letter
N
Historical records
1,531

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Narmada mean?

Narmada is the Sanskrit river name interpreted as giver of delight. The river flows west across central India. Classical literature personifies her as a goddess.

Pronunciation

IAST: narmadā

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

नर्मदा

Letter-by-letter: narmadā

Conventional spelling

Telugu

నర్మద

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Narmada in Indian usage

1,531 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Narmada: records by birth decade1960s: 1141960s1970s: 2251970s1980s: 5141980s1990s: 5631990sOther decades: 115Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1960s114
1970s225
1980s514
1990s563
Other decades115

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Andhra Pradesh1,204
Kerala109
Other states218
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, narmadā, p. 530,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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