MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sagar mean?
Sanskrit sāgara is the ocean or sea noun continued in Hindi. The word also enters compounds such as mahāsāgara, a great ocean.
Pronunciation
IAST: sāgara
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सागर
Letter-by-letter: sāgara
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sagar in Indian usage
130,957 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 33,487 records (25.6%).
- Recorded as male: 97,470 records (74.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,904 |
| 1940s | 4,484 |
| 1950s | 8,246 |
| 1960s | 13,078 |
| 1970s | 15,625 |
| 1980s | 27,050 |
| 1990s | 59,973 |
| Other decades | 597 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 19,799 |
| Bihar | 18,378 |
| Maharashtra | 15,816 |
| Odisha | 13,179 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 13,000 |
| Rajasthan | 12,111 |
| Jharkhand | 8,555 |
| Delhi | 5,672 |
| Haryana | 4,592 |
| Gujarat | 4,492 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 3,813 |
| Punjab | 2,997 |
| Uttarakhand | 2,704 |
| Goa | 1,436 |
| Tripura | 1,002 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 928 |
| Kerala | 895 |
| Assam | 312 |
| Chandigarh | 239 |
| Sikkim | 219 |
| Meghalaya | 166 |
| Karnataka | 147 |
| Daman and Diu | 108 |
| Other states | 397 |
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, sāgara, p. 1198,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.