MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Tilakadhari mean?
Tilakadhari combines tilak, a mark placed on the forehead, with dhari, one who wears or bears something. The forehead mark may be made with sandalwood paste or coloured powders in Indian ceremonial practice.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
तिलकधारी
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Tilakadhari in Indian usage
5,097 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling तिलकधारी.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 215 |
| 1940s | 752 |
| 1950s | 1,100 |
| 1960s | 1,181 |
| 1970s | 997 |
| 1980s | 631 |
| Other decades | 221 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,563 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 648 |
| Bihar | 596 |
| Jharkhand | 290 |
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, tilaka, p. 448,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, dhārin, p. 515,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.