MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Alka mean?
Alka is associated with Sanskrit alaka, a curl of hair. Alakā is also the name of Kubera's city in Sanskrit mythological geography.
Pronunciation
IAST: alakā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
अलका
Letter-by-letter: alakā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Alka in Indian usage
133,035 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 131,863 records (99.1%).
- Recorded as male: 1,172 records (0.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 178 |
| 1940s | 693 |
| 1950s | 3,236 |
| 1960s | 14,360 |
| 1970s | 29,418 |
| 1980s | 45,445 |
| 1990s | 39,592 |
| Other decades | 113 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 44,761 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 19,124 |
| Bihar | 14,706 |
| Rajasthan | 12,229 |
| Delhi | 8,758 |
| Jharkhand | 7,062 |
| Haryana | 6,075 |
| Punjab | 4,000 |
| Uttarakhand | 3,578 |
| Assam | 3,482 |
| Odisha | 3,128 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,599 |
| Karnataka | 1,374 |
| Maharashtra | 1,060 |
| Tripura | 621 |
| Goa | 485 |
| Chandigarh | 421 |
| Kerala | 286 |
| Other states | 286 |
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, alakā, p. 94,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, alaka, p. 94,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.