MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Ankesh mean?
Ankesh combines aṅka with īśa, lord. Aṅka can mean a number or a lap in Sanskrit, giving the modern compound more than one literal interpretation.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
अंकेश
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Ankesh in Indian usage
6,887 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (95.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 324 records (4.7%).
- Recorded as male: 6,563 records (95.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1980s | 1,835 |
| 1990s | 4,735 |
| Other decades | 317 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,270 |
| Bihar | 2,077 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,379 |
| Rajasthan | 525 |
| Jharkhand | 237 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 186 |
| Haryana | 107 |
| Other states | 106 |
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, aṅka, p. 7,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, īśvara, p. 171,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.