MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Nivas mean?
Nivas comes from the Sanskrit noun for residing and a place of residence. In longer devotional names it can describe a dwelling of a deity or a cherished quality.
Pronunciation
IAST: nivāsa
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
निवास
Letter-by-letter: nivāsa
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Nivas in Indian usage
7,272 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling निवास.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 119 records (1.6%).
- Recorded as male: 7,153 records (98.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,110 |
| 1970s | 1,599 |
| 1980s | 2,161 |
| 1990s | 1,965 |
| Other decades | 437 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 4,013 |
| Jharkhand | 1,267 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 970 |
| Rajasthan | 867 |
| Other states | 155 |
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, nivāsa, p. 559,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.