MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Ramdas mean?
Ramdas combines Rama with dāsa, servant or devotee. The second element expresses devotional service and also appears in Haridas and Krishnadas. The seventeenth-century saint Ramdas wrote the Marathi work Dasbodh.
Pronunciation
IAST: rāmadāsa
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
रामदास
Letter-by-letter: rāmadāsa
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Ramdas in Indian usage
91,557 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 986 records (1.1%).
- Recorded as male: 90,571 records (98.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 3,245 |
| 1940s | 9,996 |
| 1950s | 16,703 |
| 1960s | 21,667 |
| 1970s | 18,109 |
| 1980s | 14,435 |
| 1990s | 6,837 |
| Other decades | 565 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 43,443 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 29,610 |
| Bihar | 4,719 |
| Jharkhand | 3,538 |
| Kerala | 3,457 |
| Rajasthan | 3,349 |
| Maharashtra | 1,585 |
| Haryana | 634 |
| Uttarakhand | 391 |
| Punjab | 333 |
| Puducherry | 139 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 132 |
| Other states | 227 |
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, dāsa, p. 477,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Maharashtra Gazetteer: Shivtarghal ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Saint Ramdas wrote Dasbodh at Shivtarghal.
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.