MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Dashami mean?
Dashami is the feminine Sanskrit ordinal used for the tenth day of a lunar fortnight. The word also denotes the tenth day after a birth in older usage.
Pronunciation
IAST: daśamī
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
दशमी
Letter-by-letter: daśamī
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Dashami in Indian usage
5,824 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling दशमी.
Mostly recorded for girls (80.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 4,672 records (80.2%).
- Recorded as male: 1,152 records (19.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 727 |
| 1960s | 1,167 |
| 1970s | 1,311 |
| 1980s | 1,388 |
| 1990s | 875 |
| Other decades | 356 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Jharkhand | 4,560 |
| Other states | 1,264 |
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, daśamī, p. 472,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.