MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Viravati mean?
Viravati is the feminine of vīravat, endowed with heroes or brave followers. Sanskrit also uses the feminine word for a woman whose husband is living. In the Mahabharata, Viravati additionally occurs as a river name.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
वीरवती
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
वीरावती
Letter-by-letter: vīrāvatī
4,152 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Viravati in Indian usage
31,439 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 31,296 records (99.5%).
- Recorded as male: 143 records (0.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,986 |
| 1950s | 4,218 |
| 1960s | 7,568 |
| 1970s | 7,194 |
| 1980s | 6,441 |
| 1990s | 3,381 |
| Other decades | 651 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 25,847 |
| Rajasthan | 2,768 |
| Haryana | 1,150 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 883 |
| Uttarakhand | 620 |
| Other states | 171 |
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, vīravat, p. 1006,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, vīravatī, p. 1006,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.