MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Barkha mean?
Barkha is a familiar Hindi continuation of Sanskrit varṣā, rain. Folk poetry often places barkha in the monsoon landscape of clouds, fields and renewed greenery.
Meaning themes
rain
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बरखा
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Barkha in Indian usage
15,946 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (91.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 14,521 records (91.1%).
- Recorded as male: 1,425 records (8.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 284 |
| 1950s | 543 |
| 1960s | 807 |
| 1970s | 2,090 |
| 1980s | 5,282 |
| 1990s | 6,805 |
| Other decades | 135 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,889 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 3,526 |
| Haryana | 2,207 |
| Rajasthan | 2,121 |
| Delhi | 1,105 |
| Bihar | 790 |
| Jharkhand | 788 |
| Uttarakhand | 633 |
| Punjab | 566 |
| Other states | 321 |
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, varṣā, p. 927,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: बरखा ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Wiktionary: वर्षा ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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