MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bansi mean?
The bamboo flute is called vaṃśī in Sanskrit and Bansi in vernacular use. Krishna's frequent portrayal with this instrument gives the personal name its devotional setting.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बंसी
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bansi in Indian usage
4,176 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling बंसी.
Mostly recorded for boys (96.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 141 records (3.4%).
- Recorded as male: 4,035 records (96.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 329 |
| 1950s | 625 |
| 1960s | 955 |
| 1970s | 1,407 |
| 1980s | 540 |
| Other decades | 320 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Haryana | 2,187 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,060 |
| Rajasthan | 703 |
| Other states | 226 |
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, vaṃśī, p. 910,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.