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Jayprakash

Light of victory

Jayprakash means “Light of victory”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Hindi / Malayalam
First letter
J
Historical records
6,710

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Jayprakash mean?

Jayprakash joins jaya, victory, with prakāśa, light. Prakāśa also carries the sense of manifestation or becoming visible, giving the compound an image of triumph coming to light.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

जयप्रकाश

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Jayprakash in Indian usage

6,710 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Jayprakash: records by birth decade1950s: 6761950s1960s: 1,4501960s1970s: 1,9991970s1980s: 1,6731980s1990s: 7341990sOther decades: 178Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1950s676
1960s1,450
1970s1,999
1980s1,673
1990s734
Other decades178

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Kerala4,808
Andhra Pradesh1,454
Other states448
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, jaya, p. 412,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  3. Monier-Williams, prakāśa, p. 653,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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