MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Adesh mean?
Ādeśa is a Sanskrit noun for instruction, advice or a command. It is formed with ā and the root diś, to show, direct or prescribe.
Pronunciation
IAST: ādeśa
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
आदेश
Letter-by-letter: ādeśa
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Adesh in Indian usage
37,604 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (82.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 6,420 records (17.1%).
- Recorded as male: 31,184 records (82.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 994 |
| 1960s | 3,811 |
| 1970s | 7,195 |
| 1980s | 13,245 |
| 1990s | 12,190 |
| Other decades | 169 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 29,452 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,827 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,778 |
| Haryana | 1,057 |
| Delhi | 1,021 |
| Bihar | 778 |
| Rajasthan | 705 |
| Jharkhand | 392 |
| Punjab | 184 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 112 |
| Other states | 298 |
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, ādeśa, p. 137,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.