MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Iccha mean?
Iccha is the Sanskrit and Hindi word for a wish or desire. It can describe an immediate inclination as well as a more deliberate aspiration.
Pronunciation
IAST: icchā
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
इच्छा
Letter-by-letter: icchā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Iccha in Indian usage
771 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling इच्छा.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 500 records (64.9%).
- Recorded as male: 271 records (35.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 142 |
| 1980s | 194 |
| 1990s | 253 |
| Other decades | 182 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Other states | 771 |
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, icchā, p. 169,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.