MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Balak mean?
Balak is the Sanskrit-derived noun for a child or boy. Sanskrit also applies the word to the young of an animal, showing its broader association with youth.
Pronunciation
IAST: bālaka
Meaning themes
child
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बालक
Letter-by-letter: bālaka
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Balak in Indian usage
18,019 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (97.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 401 records (2.2%).
- Recorded as male: 17,618 records (97.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 609 |
| 1940s | 1,788 |
| 1950s | 3,278 |
| 1960s | 4,532 |
| 1970s | 3,716 |
| 1980s | 2,761 |
| 1990s | 1,203 |
| Other decades | 132 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 9,554 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 2,675 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,389 |
| Jharkhand | 1,101 |
| Bihar | 1,026 |
| Haryana | 995 |
| Uttarakhand | 407 |
| Punjab | 363 |
| Rajasthan | 247 |
| Other states | 262 |
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, bālaka, p. 729,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.