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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Vishwanath

Shiva; literally lord of the universe

Vishwanath means “Shiva; literally lord of the universe”.

Origin language
Sanskrit
First letter
V
Historical records
122,527

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Vishwanath mean?

Viśvanātha joins viśva, universe, and nātha, lord, and is especially associated with Shiva at Varanasi. Kashi Vishwanath preserves this Shiva title in the temple name.

Pronunciation

IAST: viśvanātha

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

विश्वनाथ

Letter-by-letter: viśvanātha

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Vishwanath in Indian usage

122,527 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for boys (99.2%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 1,013 records (0.8%).
  • Recorded as male: 121,514 records (99.2%).

By birth decade

Vishwanath: records by birth decade1920s: 1,1251920s1930s: 5,8351930s1940s: 15,3991940s1950s: 23,8941950s1960s: 26,8001960s1970s: 21,3611970s1980s: 17,6101980s1990s: 10,3961990sOther decades: 107Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1920s1,125
1930s5,835
1940s15,399
1950s23,894
1960s26,800
1970s21,361
1980s17,610
1990s10,396
Other decades107

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Bihar47,680
Uttar Pradesh43,153
Jharkhand12,796
Madhya Pradesh12,283
Rajasthan2,025
Maharashtra1,672
Goa749
Uttarakhand620
Delhi611
Haryana458
Andhra Pradesh291
Other states189
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, viśvanātha, p. 993,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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