MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Seva mean?
Seva is the Sanskrit word for service or attendance on another. In devotional language it also means worshipful service, a sense especially familiar in Punjabi religious vocabulary.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सेवा
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਸੇਵਾ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Seva in Indian usage
28,849 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: 5,886 records (20.4%).
- Recorded as male: 22,963 records (79.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,362 |
| 1940s | 3,424 |
| 1950s | 5,284 |
| 1960s | 6,773 |
| 1970s | 5,945 |
| 1980s | 3,900 |
| 1990s | 1,872 |
| Other decades | 289 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Punjab | 7,749 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 5,748 |
| Haryana | 5,520 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 3,523 |
| Rajasthan | 2,509 |
| Jharkhand | 1,518 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,156 |
| Bihar | 469 |
| Uttarakhand | 420 |
| Chandigarh | 112 |
| Other states | 125 |
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, sevā, p. 1247,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.