MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bikash mean?
Bengali Bikash continues Sanskrit vikāsa, the opening of a flower. Modern usage extends this unfolding image to growth and development.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
विकास
Conventional spelling
Bengali
বিকাশ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bikash in Indian usage
25,576 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 206 records (0.8%).
- Recorded as male: 25,370 records (99.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 102 |
| 1950s | 330 |
| 1960s | 1,020 |
| 1970s | 2,912 |
| 1980s | 7,549 |
| 1990s | 13,529 |
| Other decades | 134 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 9,077 |
| Tripura | 5,725 |
| Assam | 4,598 |
| Jharkhand | 4,361 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,259 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 255 |
| Haryana | 116 |
| Other states | 185 |
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