MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Ramnarayan mean?
Rama and Narayana are joined as two divine names in one compound. Narayana is a name of Vishnu, whose incarnation Rama is traditionally considered.
Pronunciation
IAST: rāmanārāyaṇa
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
रामनारायण
Letter-by-letter: rāmanārāyaṇa
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Ramnarayan in Indian usage
48,589 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling रामनारायण.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 158 records (0.3%).
- Recorded as male: 48,431 records (99.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 250 |
| 1930s | 1,903 |
| 1940s | 5,291 |
| 1950s | 8,740 |
| 1960s | 10,577 |
| 1970s | 9,648 |
| 1980s | 8,147 |
| 1990s | 4,033 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 18,172 |
| Rajasthan | 15,409 |
| Bihar | 9,467 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 4,814 |
| Other states | 727 |
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, nārāyaṇa, p. 536,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.