MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sundar mean?
Sundara is the Sanskrit adjective for beautiful or pleasing. Sundari is its corresponding feminine form, also used as a name.
Pronunciation
IAST: sundara
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सुन्दर
Letter-by-letter: sundara
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sundar in Indian usage
160,070 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: 48,939 records (30.6%).
- Recorded as male: 111,131 records (69.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 1,471 |
| 1930s | 6,181 |
| 1940s | 15,086 |
| 1950s | 23,107 |
| 1960s | 30,499 |
| 1970s | 31,604 |
| 1980s | 32,770 |
| 1990s | 19,231 |
| Other decades | 121 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 54,849 |
| Rajasthan | 32,526 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 24,693 |
| Haryana | 14,384 |
| Bihar | 10,274 |
| Uttarakhand | 10,246 |
| Jharkhand | 4,429 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 3,479 |
| Odisha | 1,588 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 1,302 |
| Delhi | 675 |
| Kerala | 451 |
| Puducherry | 369 |
| Assam | 175 |
| Tripura | 167 |
| Goa | 144 |
| Chandigarh | 124 |
| Other states | 195 |
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, sundara, p. 1227,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Behind the Name: Sundar ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Behind the Name: Sundara ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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