MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Premachandra mean?
Premachandra joins prema, love, with candra, moon. Sanskrit compounds use the moon as a poetic image for something especially beautiful or excellent, which gives this name its lyrical sense.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
प्रेमचन्द्र
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Premachandra in Indian usage
30,767 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 104 records (0.3%).
- Recorded as male: 30,663 records (99.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,079 |
| 1950s | 2,846 |
| 1960s | 5,914 |
| 1970s | 7,243 |
| 1980s | 8,389 |
| 1990s | 5,026 |
| Other decades | 270 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 25,351 |
| Bihar | 2,162 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,466 |
| Rajasthan | 886 |
| Jharkhand | 742 |
| Other states | 160 |
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, candra, p. 386,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, prema, p. 711,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.