MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Alok mean?
Āloka denotes light, sight or looking in Sanskrit, with the illumination sense most familiar in contemporary naming. The Sanskrit āloka can denote light or the act of seeing.
Pronunciation
IAST: aloka
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
आलोक
Letter-by-letter: aloka
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
अलोक
Letter-by-letter: aloka
14,755 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Alok in Indian usage
141,762 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,205 records (0.9%).
- Recorded as male: 140,557 records (99.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 137 |
| 1940s | 391 |
| 1950s | 2,086 |
| 1960s | 8,752 |
| 1970s | 25,088 |
| 1980s | 53,266 |
| 1990s | 51,924 |
| Other decades | 118 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 73,825 |
| Bihar | 36,244 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 8,727 |
| Jharkhand | 8,633 |
| Delhi | 4,942 |
| Rajasthan | 3,664 |
| Uttarakhand | 2,108 |
| Haryana | 1,639 |
| Punjab | 452 |
| Assam | 361 |
| Kerala | 175 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 168 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 120 |
| Chandigarh | 117 |
| Maharashtra | 111 |
| Other states | 476 |
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
- Wiktionary: आलोक ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
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