MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Alakesh mean?
Alakesh is a shortened form of the title Alakeshvara, lord of Alaka. Alaka is Kubera's Himalayan city in Sanskrit literature, so the name refers to the deity of wealth.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
अलकेश
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Alakesh in Indian usage
5,319 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (86.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 738 records (13.9%).
- Recorded as male: 4,581 records (86.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1970s | 718 |
| 1980s | 1,964 |
| 1990s | 2,312 |
| Other decades | 325 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,339 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,372 |
| Assam | 653 |
| Rajasthan | 487 |
| Haryana | 167 |
| Other states | 301 |
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, alakeśvara, p. 94,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, alakā, p. 94,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.