MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Parvati mean?
Pārvatī is the mountain-derived name of Shiva's consort, traditionally the daughter of Himavat in Sanskrit mythology. Girija expresses the mountain-born association through giri and jā.
Pronunciation
IAST: pārvatī
Meaning themes
shivamountains
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पार्वती
Letter-by-letter: pārvatī
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Parvati in Indian usage
512,113 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 510,100 records (99.6%).
- Recorded as male: 2,013 records (0.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 4,422 |
| 1930s | 17,547 |
| 1940s | 39,868 |
| 1950s | 66,109 |
| 1960s | 105,737 |
| 1970s | 107,513 |
| 1980s | 105,339 |
| 1990s | 65,222 |
| Other decades | 356 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 109,803 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 107,527 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 74,640 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 71,865 |
| Jharkhand | 55,855 |
| Rajasthan | 45,097 |
| Uttarakhand | 21,517 |
| Kerala | 13,637 |
| Haryana | 5,449 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 4,510 |
| Maharashtra | 1,040 |
| Puducherry | 777 |
| Chandigarh | 248 |
| Other states | 148 |
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, pārvatī, p. 622,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.