MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Raghunath mean?
Raghunātha joins Raghu, an ancestral king's name, with nātha, lord. The complete epithet conventionally refers to Rama as the foremost figure of that lineage. Raghu's royal descendants are the subject of Kalidasa's Sanskrit poem Raghuvamsha.
Pronunciation
IAST: raghunātha
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
रघुनाथ
Letter-by-letter: raghunātha
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Raghunath in Indian usage
69,773 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 513 records (0.7%).
- Recorded as male: 69,260 records (99.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 3,591 |
| 1940s | 8,934 |
| 1950s | 13,403 |
| 1960s | 15,613 |
| 1970s | 12,945 |
| 1980s | 9,352 |
| 1990s | 5,152 |
| Other decades | 783 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 21,043 |
| Bihar | 16,966 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 12,470 |
| Jharkhand | 6,309 |
| Rajasthan | 6,256 |
| Kerala | 1,173 |
| Uttarakhand | 939 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 907 |
| Maharashtra | 865 |
| Haryana | 719 |
| Goa | 644 |
| Punjab | 508 |
| Delhi | 420 |
| Assam | 126 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 123 |
| Tripura | 111 |
| Other states | 194 |
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, raghunātha, p. 860,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.