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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Prabir

Great hero; foremost among heroes

Prabir means “Great hero; foremost among heroes”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Bengali
First letter
P
Historical records
3,637

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Prabir mean?

Prabir is the Bengali personal-name form of Sanskrit pravira. The Sanskrit adjective describes one who surpasses heroes, and the noun can denote a chief or distinguished warrior.

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

प्रबीर

Conventional spelling

Bengali

প্রবীর

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Prabir in Indian usage

3,637 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Prabir: records by birth decade1950s: 3271950s1960s: 6631960s1970s: 9711970s1980s: 9851980s1990s: 5751990sOther decades: 116Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1950s327
1960s663
1970s971
1980s985
1990s575
Other decades116

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Tripura2,255
Jharkhand444
Assam414
Odisha294
Other states230
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, pravīra, p. 693,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

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