MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Akanksha mean?
Ākāṅkṣā is a Sanskrit noun for wishing or desiring. Modern Hindi also uses it for an aspiration toward something sought.
Pronunciation
IAST: ākāṅkṣā
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
आकांक्षा
Letter-by-letter: ākāṅkṣā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Akanksha in Indian usage
40,645 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (98.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 39,987 records (98.4%).
- Recorded as male: 658 records (1.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1970s | 690 |
| 1980s | 10,366 |
| 1990s | 29,407 |
| Other decades | 182 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 20,567 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 6,845 |
| Bihar | 3,770 |
| Delhi | 3,429 |
| Rajasthan | 2,174 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,166 |
| Jharkhand | 1,045 |
| Haryana | 829 |
| Odisha | 251 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 227 |
| Goa | 119 |
| Other states | 223 |
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, ākāṅkṣā, p. 126,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.