MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Subhadra mean?
Subhadra combines su, “good”, with bhadra, “auspicious”. In the Mahabharata, Subhadra is Krishna's sister, Arjuna's wife and Abhimanyu's mother. Subhadra is also worshipped beside Jagannath and Balabhadra at Puri.
Pronunciation
IAST: subhadrā
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सुभद्रा
Letter-by-letter: subhadrā
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
സുഭദ്ര
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Subhadra in Indian usage
12,204 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,719 |
| 1950s | 2,989 |
| 1960s | 2,890 |
| 1970s | 1,848 |
| 1980s | 1,354 |
| 1990s | 753 |
| Other decades | 651 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 7,770 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 3,309 |
| Goa | 453 |
| Karnataka | 242 |
| Delhi | 232 |
| Other states | 198 |
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, subhadrā, p. 1229,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: सुभद्रा ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, subhadra, p. 1229,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.