MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Chhavi mean?
Chhavi draws on Sanskrit chavi, with senses of beauty and splendour. Hindi extends the word to an image or likeness, so the name brings together radiance and visual presence.
Meaning themes
beautyradiance
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
छवि
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
छवी
Letter-by-letter: chavī
2,531 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Chhavi in Indian usage
16,017 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: 11,336 records (70.8%).
- Recorded as male: 4,681 records (29.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 713 |
| 1950s | 1,334 |
| 1960s | 2,153 |
| 1970s | 2,928 |
| 1980s | 4,726 |
| 1990s | 3,836 |
| Other decades | 327 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 6,286 |
| Jharkhand | 4,096 |
| Bihar | 1,515 |
| Delhi | 1,045 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 773 |
| Rajasthan | 749 |
| Haryana | 714 |
| Uttarakhand | 457 |
| Punjab | 176 |
| Other states | 206 |
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, chavi, p. 405,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.