MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Priyatam mean?
Priyatam uses the Sanskrit superlative ending tama with priya, dear. Classical literature employs the resulting word for the most beloved person and also for a lover or husband.
Pronunciation
IAST: priyatama
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
प्रियतम
Letter-by-letter: priyatama
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Priyatam in Indian usage
1,532 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (82.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 273 records (17.8%).
- Recorded as male: 1,259 records (82.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1970s | 199 |
| 1980s | 500 |
| 1990s | 708 |
| Other decades | 125 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 788 |
| Jharkhand | 177 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 162 |
| Other states | 405 |
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, priyatama, p. 710,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.