MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Yashoda mean?
Yashoda’s Sanskrit construction carries the sense of giving fame or honour. In Krishna’s narratives she is the wife of the cowherd Nanda. She nurses and raises the infant Krishna as his foster mother.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
यशोदा
Conventional spelling
Telugu
యశోదా
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
याशोदा
Letter-by-letter: yāśodā
6,678 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Yashoda in Indian usage
32,488 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (98.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 32,131 records (98.9%).
- Recorded as male: 357 records (1.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,296 |
| 1940s | 3,553 |
| 1950s | 6,209 |
| 1960s | 7,140 |
| 1970s | 6,546 |
| 1980s | 4,998 |
| 1990s | 2,501 |
| Other decades | 245 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 12,669 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 8,156 |
| Jharkhand | 4,547 |
| Delhi | 3,376 |
| Bihar | 2,335 |
| Goa | 502 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 197 |
| Sikkim | 153 |
| Haryana | 120 |
| Other states | 433 |
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, yaśodā, p. 848,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.