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Virendra

chief of heroes

Virendra means “chief of heroes”.

Origin language
Sanskrit
First letter
V
Historical records
278,687

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Virendra mean?

Vīrendra joins vīra, hero, to the chief sense of indra, making the compound a superlative title. Birendra is an eastern form with b for v.

Pronunciation

IAST: vīrendra

Meaning themes

heroismleadership

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

वीरेन्द्र

Letter-by-letter: vīrendra

Conventional spelling

Devanagari

वीरेंद्र

Letter-by-letter: vīreṃdra

32,969 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Virendra in Indian usage

278,687 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for boys (99.5%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 1,353 records (0.5%).
  • Recorded as male: 277,334 records (99.5%).

By birth decade

Virendra: records by birth decade1930s: 1,2121930s1940s: 6,2381940s1950s: 19,5991950s1960s: 46,6821960s1970s: 68,7591970s1980s: 83,2061980s1990s: 52,7451990sOther decades: 246Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1930s1,212
1940s6,238
1950s19,599
1960s46,682
1970s68,759
1980s83,206
1990s52,745
Other decades246

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Uttar Pradesh163,800
Bihar48,894
Madhya Pradesh35,672
Rajasthan8,350
Uttarakhand6,865
Jharkhand5,396
Haryana4,141
Himachal Pradesh3,699
Andhra Pradesh1,753
Other states117
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, vīrendra, p. 1006,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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