MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Urvasi mean?
Urvashi is the celestial nymph whose love for Pururavas appears in early Sanskrit literature. Kalidasa made their story the subject of his play Vikramorvashiyam. The Sanskrit name is traditionally analysed as widely extending.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Tamil
ஊர்வசி
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
उर्वशी
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Urvasi in Indian usage
9,054 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling उर्वशी.
Mostly recorded for girls (98.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 8,951 records (98.9%).
- Recorded as male: 103 records (1.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 530 |
| 1970s | 1,151 |
| 1980s | 2,679 |
| 1990s | 4,498 |
| Other decades | 196 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,855 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,394 |
| Rajasthan | 1,205 |
| Bihar | 1,194 |
| Haryana | 773 |
| Uttarakhand | 320 |
| Other states | 313 |
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, urvaśī, p. 218,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: उर्वशी ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Wisdom Library: Urvashi (Monier-Williams, Apte, Shabda-Sagara) ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Behind the Name: Urvashi ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.