MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Narvada mean?
Narvada is a vernacular form of Narmada, the river of central India. Sanskrit explains Narmada as pleasure-giver, from narma, delight, and dā, giving.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
नर्मदा
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
नर्वदा
Letter-by-letter: narvadā
17,009 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Narvada in Indian usage
18,025 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: 14,356 records (79.6%).
- Recorded as male: 3,669 records (20.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 484 |
| 1940s | 1,207 |
| 1950s | 2,327 |
| 1960s | 3,769 |
| 1970s | 4,138 |
| 1980s | 4,094 |
| 1990s | 1,905 |
| Other decades | 101 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 6,012 |
| Rajasthan | 5,833 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 3,138 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,951 |
| Uttarakhand | 520 |
| Bihar | 303 |
| Other states | 268 |
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, narmadā, p. 530,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.