MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Banaras mean?
Banaras is the familiar vernacular name of Varanasi on the Ganga. The city is also called Kashi. Its temples and learning traditions make it a celebrated centre of Shiva worship and pilgrimage.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बनारस
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Banaras in Indian usage
2,474 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling बनारस.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 591 records (23.9%).
- Recorded as male: 1,883 records (76.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 336 |
| 1950s | 540 |
| 1960s | 602 |
| 1970s | 546 |
| 1980s | 270 |
| Other decades | 180 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 1,880 |
| Other states | 594 |
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, śiva, p. 1074,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: बनारस ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.