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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Parasuram

Rama with the axe; Parashurama

Parasuram means “Rama with the axe; Parashurama”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Hindi
First letter
P
Historical records
9,857

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Parasuram mean?

Parashurama joins parashu, an axe, to Rama. He is the son of the sage Jamadagni. Sacred narratives count him as the sixth avatar of Vishnu.

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

परशुराम

Conventional spelling

Devanagari

परसुराम

Letter-by-letter: parasurāma

9,857 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Parasuram in Indian usage

9,857 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

These totals and margins describe the spelling परसुराम.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Parasuram: records by birth decade1930s: 1941930s1940s: 8241940s1950s: 1,6661950s1960s: 2,7191960s1970s: 2,3741970s1980s: 1,3861980s1990s: 6941990s
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1930s194
1940s824
1950s1,666
1960s2,719
1970s2,374
1980s1,386
1990s694

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Uttar Pradesh5,540
Bihar2,964
Madhya Pradesh824
Other states529
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, paraśurāma, p. 589,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.