MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Dasi mean?
Dasi is the Sanskrit feminine word for a servant. In devotional names it expresses service to a deity and can stand as the feminine counterpart of Das.
Pronunciation
IAST: dāsī
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
दासी
Letter-by-letter: dāsī
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Dasi in Indian usage
5,223 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (84.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 4,416 records (84.5%).
- Recorded as male: 807 records (15.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 351 |
| 1940s | 704 |
| 1950s | 1,051 |
| 1960s | 1,186 |
| 1970s | 946 |
| 1980s | 655 |
| Other decades | 330 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,744 |
| Jharkhand | 1,080 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 887 |
| Maharashtra | 520 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 319 |
| Bihar | 318 |
| Other states | 355 |
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, dāsī, p. 477,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.