MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bhikhari mean?
Hindi bhikhārī denotes someone who asks for alms. As a traditional personal name it belongs to the vocabulary of begging and dependence, also familiar from devotional expressions of seeking divine grace.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
भिखारी
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bhikhari in Indian usage
34,930 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 386 records (1.1%).
- Recorded as male: 34,544 records (98.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,246 |
| 1940s | 3,268 |
| 1950s | 5,599 |
| 1960s | 6,950 |
| 1970s | 5,656 |
| 1980s | 10,918 |
| 1990s | 1,011 |
| Other decades | 282 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 19,340 |
| Odisha | 8,064 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 4,928 |
| Jharkhand | 2,140 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 258 |
| Other states | 200 |
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