MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Samandar mean?
Samandar is the familiar Hindi and Urdu form of samudra, the sea or ocean. Sanskrit describes samudra as a gathering of waters. The ocean is also personified as the king of rivers.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
समन्दर
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Samandar in Indian usage
2,571 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (85.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 379 records (14.7%).
- Recorded as male: 2,192 records (85.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 198 |
| 1960s | 401 |
| 1970s | 498 |
| 1980s | 630 |
| 1990s | 714 |
| Other decades | 130 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 1,238 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 969 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 207 |
| Other states | 157 |
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, samudra, p. 1166,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.