MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Abhilash mean?
Abhilash comes from Sanskrit abhilāṣa, a wish or longing directed toward something. The noun can also express affection, giving the name a range from heartfelt desire to aspiration.
Meaning themes
aspiration
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
अभिलाष
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Abhilash in Indian usage
32,145 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 575 records (1.8%).
- Recorded as male: 31,570 records (98.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 247 |
| 1960s | 495 |
| 1970s | 3,877 |
| 1980s | 16,293 |
| 1990s | 11,049 |
| Other decades | 184 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 21,699 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 4,025 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,531 |
| Bihar | 1,053 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 838 |
| Rajasthan | 458 |
| Jharkhand | 439 |
| Haryana | 277 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 271 |
| Uttarakhand | 262 |
| Other states | 292 |
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, abhilāṣa, p. 68,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: अभिलाष ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
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