MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Jyotish mean?
Jyotish is connected with jyotis, celestial light or brightness. Sanskrit jyotisha can denote an astronomer and also the sun, preserving both a scholarly and a luminous sense.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
ज्योतिष
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Jyotish in Indian usage
10,848 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (97.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 245 records (2.3%).
- Recorded as male: 10,603 records (97.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 373 |
| 1950s | 890 |
| 1960s | 1,420 |
| 1970s | 1,809 |
| 1980s | 2,833 |
| 1990s | 3,299 |
| Other decades | 224 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 5,881 |
| Assam | 2,091 |
| Jharkhand | 1,500 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 534 |
| Tripura | 418 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 163 |
| Rajasthan | 157 |
| Other states | 104 |
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, jyotiṣa, p. 427,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, jyotis, p. 427,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.