MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Akas mean?
Akas is a Punjabi form of Akash, the Sanskrit word for sky or space. The word belongs both to everyday descriptions of the heavens and to philosophical accounts of space as an element.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Gurmukhi
ਅਕਾਸ਼
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
आकाश
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Akas in Indian usage
6,235 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (89.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 680 records (10.9%).
- Recorded as male: 5,555 records (89.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 116 |
| 1950s | 139 |
| 1960s | 220 |
| 1970s | 285 |
| 1980s | 1,202 |
| 1990s | 4,171 |
| Other decades | 102 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Punjab | 2,491 |
| Bihar | 1,540 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,031 |
| Jharkhand | 463 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 336 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 186 |
| Other states | 188 |
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, ākāśa, p. 127,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.