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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Kahakasha

Milky Way

Kahakasha means “Milky Way”.

Origin language
Persian / Urdu
First letter
K
Historical records
8,234

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Kahakasha mean?

Kahkashan is the Persian name for the Milky Way used in Urdu poetry and personal naming. Its older image is a trail of straw drawn across the sky, describing the galaxy's pale band.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

कहकशाँ

Conventional spelling

Arabic

کہکشاں

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Kahakasha in Indian usage

8,234 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

These totals and margins describe the spelling कहकशा.

Mostly recorded for girls (98.1%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 8,074 records (98.1%).
  • Recorded as male: 160 records (1.9%).

By birth decade

Kahakasha: records by birth decade1970s: 1,1951970s1980s: 3,1991980s1990s: 3,4481990sOther decades: 392Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1970s1,195
1980s3,199
1990s3,448
Other decades392

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Uttar Pradesh5,120
Bihar2,568
Madhya Pradesh219
Jharkhand177
Other states150
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

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