MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Premachand mean?
Premachand pairs prem, love or affection, with Chand, the moon. The compound uses a lunar image to express the tenderness associated with love in Indian poetic language.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
प्रेमचन्द
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
प्रेमचंद
Letter-by-letter: premacaṃda
18,796 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Premachand in Indian usage
19,706 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 128 records (0.6%).
- Recorded as male: 19,578 records (99.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,201 |
| 1950s | 2,681 |
| 1960s | 5,095 |
| 1970s | 5,411 |
| 1980s | 2,967 |
| 1990s | 1,963 |
| Other decades | 388 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 9,386 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 3,270 |
| Rajasthan | 2,607 |
| Jharkhand | 2,029 |
| Bihar | 1,841 |
| Haryana | 423 |
| Other states | 150 |
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, prema, p. 711,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.