MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Ramchandar mean?
Ramchandar is a vernacular form of Ramachandra, a name of the Ramayana's Rama. Candra adds the image of the moon and can function poetically as praise for an outstanding person.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
रामचन्द्र
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
रामचन्दर
Letter-by-letter: rāmacandara
22,643 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
रामचंदर
Letter-by-letter: rāmacaṃdara
10,722 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Ramchandar in Indian usage
35,021 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 142 records (0.4%).
- Recorded as male: 34,879 records (99.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,037 |
| 1940s | 3,373 |
| 1950s | 6,451 |
| 1960s | 8,492 |
| 1970s | 7,486 |
| 1980s | 5,755 |
| 1990s | 2,230 |
| Other decades | 197 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 20,838 |
| Bihar | 7,143 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,973 |
| Rajasthan | 1,926 |
| Jharkhand | 1,672 |
| Haryana | 288 |
| Other states | 181 |
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, rāmacandra, p. 877,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, candra, p. 386,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.