MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Vivekanand mean?
Vivekanand joins viveka, sound discernment, with ananda, joy. In Vedanta, viveka is the ability to distinguish what is enduring from what is transient.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
विवेकानन्द
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
विवेकानंद
Letter-by-letter: vivekānaṃda
5,361 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Vivekanand in Indian usage
10,747 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 413 |
| 1960s | 1,038 |
| 1970s | 2,312 |
| 1980s | 3,945 |
| 1990s | 2,877 |
| Other decades | 162 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 4,666 |
| Bihar | 3,980 |
| Jharkhand | 1,076 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 388 |
| Uttarakhand | 294 |
| Other states | 343 |
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.
Explore related lists
Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, viveka, p. 987,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, ānanda, p. 139,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: विवेकानंद ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.