MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Uday mean?
Sanskrit udaya denotes rising or emergence. In sūryodaya the same noun combines with the sun word to express sunrise.
Pronunciation
IAST: udaya
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
उदय
Letter-by-letter: udaya
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Uday in Indian usage
174,576 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (97.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 3,854 records (2.2%).
- Recorded as male: 170,722 records (97.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,825 |
| 1940s | 5,814 |
| 1950s | 13,799 |
| 1960s | 27,702 |
| 1970s | 41,888 |
| 1980s | 49,298 |
| 1990s | 33,635 |
| Other decades | 615 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 61,731 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 43,439 |
| Jharkhand | 16,636 |
| Rajasthan | 10,944 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 10,118 |
| Odisha | 8,219 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 5,719 |
| Haryana | 5,090 |
| Delhi | 4,533 |
| Uttarakhand | 2,772 |
| Goa | 1,572 |
| Assam | 1,551 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 803 |
| Tripura | 548 |
| Chandigarh | 250 |
| Maharashtra | 209 |
| Other states | 442 |
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.
Recorded abroad
Official births registered in 2025, for the exact spelling shown.
| Jurisdiction | Spelling / recorded sex | Births | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England & Wales | Uday / M | 7 | 2,952 |
ONS and National Records of Scotland; Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3. Counts follow each office’s publication rules.
Explore related lists
Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- England & Wales 2025 birth statistics: Exact spelling Uday; Table_6, C3231 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Exact spelling Uday; Table_6, C3231
- Monier-Williams, udaya, p. 186,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: उदय ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
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