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Paramavir

Supreme hero; exceptionally brave

Paramavir means “Supreme hero; exceptionally brave”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Punjabi
First letter
P
Historical records
6,453

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Paramavir mean?

Paramavir combines parama, highest or most excellent, with vira, hero. The expression also appears in the name of the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest military decoration for valour.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Gurmukhi

ਪਰਮਵੀਰ

Conventional spelling

Devanagari

परमवीर

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Paramavir in Indian usage

6,453 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for boys (92.5%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 484 records (7.5%).
  • Recorded as male: 5,969 records (92.5%).

By birth decade

Paramavir: records by birth decade1960s: 2771960s1970s: 6731970s1980s: 2,0311980s1990s: 3,3611990sOther decades: 111Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1960s277
1970s673
1980s2,031
1990s3,361
Other decades111

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Punjab2,871
Uttar Pradesh1,187
Haryana932
Rajasthan629
Uttarakhand291
Bihar255
Madhya Pradesh117
Other states171
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, parama, p. 588,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  3. Monier-Williams, vīra, p. 1005,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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