MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bikram mean?
Bikram is the eastern Indian form of Sanskrit vikrama, valour or heroic power. The older noun also denotes a stride or forward step, placing courage and advancing motion in the same word family.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बिक्रम
Conventional spelling
Odia
ବିକ୍ରମ
Conventional spelling
Bengali
বিক্রম
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bikram in Indian usage
30,655 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 14,036 records (45.8%).
- Recorded as male: 16,619 records (54.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 325 |
| 1950s | 933 |
| 1960s | 2,024 |
| 1970s | 4,062 |
| 1980s | 6,592 |
| 1990s | 16,518 |
| Other decades | 201 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Other states | 30,655 |
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, vikrama, p. 955,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.