MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shraddha mean?
Shraddha is the Sanskrit noun for faith and trust. Its range also includes respect or reverence. In the Rigveda, faith is personified as a goddess and invoked in a hymn.
Pronunciation
IAST: śraddhā
Meaning themes
faith
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
श्रद्धा
Letter-by-letter: śraddhā
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
श्रध्दा
Letter-by-letter: śradhdā
2,691 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shraddha in Indian usage
19,629 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (97.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 19,098 records (97.3%).
- Recorded as male: 531 records (2.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 351 |
| 1950s | 728 |
| 1960s | 1,635 |
| 1970s | 2,586 |
| 1980s | 6,528 |
| 1990s | 7,596 |
| Other decades | 205 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 7,253 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 5,203 |
| Bihar | 3,649 |
| Goa | 750 |
| Jharkhand | 719 |
| Rajasthan | 682 |
| Delhi | 319 |
| Uttarakhand | 308 |
| Haryana | 239 |
| Odisha | 215 |
| Other states | 292 |
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, śraddhā, p. 1095,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.