MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Raghavan mean?
Raghavan is a southern form of Sanskrit Raghava, a descendant of Raghu. Raghava is especially used as a name of Rama. Tamil and Malayalam give the name a masculine ending characteristic of personal names in those languages.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
राघवन
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
രാഘവൻ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Raghavan in Indian usage
18,125 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 368 |
| 1930s | 2,305 |
| 1940s | 5,039 |
| 1950s | 5,781 |
| 1960s | 3,164 |
| 1970s | 1,182 |
| Other decades | 286 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 17,953 |
| Other states | 172 |
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, rāghava, p. 872,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: இராகவன் ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: രാഘവൻ ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.