MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Suryadev mean?
Suryadev joins sūrya, the sun, with deva, deity. Surya is the Vedic solar god represented in later imagery riding a chariot drawn by seven horses. Vedic hymns keep a close connection between the visible sun and its divine personification.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सूर्यदेव
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
सुर्यदेव
Letter-by-letter: suryadeva
5,651 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Suryadev in Indian usage
5,651 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling सुर्यदेव.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 189 |
| 1940s | 617 |
| 1950s | 1,153 |
| 1960s | 1,415 |
| 1970s | 1,232 |
| 1980s | 727 |
| 1990s | 318 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 4,113 |
| Other states | 1,538 |
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, sūrya, p. 1243,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, deva, p. 492,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, sūryadeva, p. 1243,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.