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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Rameshwara

Shiva; lord of Rama

Rameshwara means “Shiva; lord of Rama”.

Origin language
Sanskrit
First letter
R
Historical records
247,514

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Rameshwara mean?

Rāmeśvara is associated with Shiva worshipped by Rama at Rameswaram, and must be distinguished from Ramesh, whose Ramā is Lakshmi. The name is preserved in Rameswaram's temple tradition.

Pronunciation

IAST: rāmeśvara

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

रामेश्वर

Letter-by-letter: rāmeśvara

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Rameshwara in Indian usage

247,514 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for boys (96.1%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 9,553 records (3.9%).
  • Recorded as male: 237,961 records (96.1%).

By birth decade

Rameshwara: records by birth decade1920s: 1,8301920s1930s: 9,3941930s1940s: 26,0281940s1950s: 44,7611950s1960s: 54,9361960s1970s: 46,0361970s1980s: 44,5281980s1990s: 19,8861990sOther decades: 115Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1920s1,830
1930s9,394
1940s26,028
1950s44,761
1960s54,936
1970s46,036
1980s44,528
1990s19,886
Other decades115

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Rajasthan60,354
Uttar Pradesh53,949
Madhya Pradesh50,622
Bihar42,109
Jharkhand15,816
Haryana11,614
Odisha8,417
Uttarakhand1,501
Delhi1,129
Maharashtra789
Himachal Pradesh716
Chandigarh164
Goa134
Other states200
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

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