MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Santaram mean?
Santaram joins sant, a saint or holy person, with Rama. The compound belongs to northern devotional naming in which the epic deity is invoked through another sacred term.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
संतराम
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
सन्तराम
Letter-by-letter: santarāma
1,469 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Santaram in Indian usage
25,096 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 107 records (0.4%).
- Recorded as male: 24,989 records (99.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,261 |
| 1950s | 3,119 |
| 1960s | 5,084 |
| 1970s | 5,315 |
| 1980s | 6,260 |
| 1990s | 3,711 |
| Other decades | 346 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 16,653 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 6,465 |
| Rajasthan | 1,000 |
| Haryana | 555 |
| Uttarakhand | 173 |
| Other states | 250 |
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)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.