MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Akhtar mean?
Persian akhtar denotes a star and gives Akhtar its celestial sense. Urdu poetry also uses the word in images of the night sky.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
अख्तर
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
अखतर
14,688 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Akhtar in Indian usage
75,498 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (88.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 8,674 records (11.5%).
- Recorded as male: 66,824 records (88.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,052 |
| 1940s | 3,877 |
| 1950s | 8,484 |
| 1960s | 14,633 |
| 1970s | 18,563 |
| 1980s | 18,985 |
| 1990s | 9,651 |
| Other decades | 253 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 35,163 |
| Bihar | 16,414 |
| Jharkhand | 5,942 |
| Rajasthan | 5,161 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 3,800 |
| Maharashtra | 3,616 |
| Haryana | 2,175 |
| Delhi | 1,259 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,188 |
| Punjab | 326 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 125 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 103 |
| Other states | 226 |
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