MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Raghavendra mean?
Rāghava identifies a descendant of Raghu, the royal ancestor of Rama. Joined with indra, it expresses pre-eminence within that lineage and evokes Rama. The name also recalls the seventeenth-century teacher Raghavendra, whose shrine is at Mantralayam.
Pronunciation
IAST: rāghavendra
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
राघवेन्द्र
Letter-by-letter: rāghavendra
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Raghavendra in Indian usage
52,017 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: 174 records (0.3%).
- Recorded as male: 51,843 records (99.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 369 |
| 1950s | 1,227 |
| 1960s | 3,793 |
| 1970s | 8,594 |
| 1980s | 19,702 |
| 1990s | 18,224 |
| Other decades | 108 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 33,129 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 12,508 |
| Bihar | 4,361 |
| Rajasthan | 1,177 |
| Jharkhand | 430 |
| Uttarakhand | 200 |
| Other states | 212 |
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, rāghavendra, p. 872,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Sri Raghavendra Swamy Matha: History ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Raghavendra and the Matha at Mantralayam.
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.