MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kalika mean?
Kalika is a Sanskrit name of the goddess Kali or Durga. The word also belongs to the vocabulary of blackness, which underlies the goddess's dark form.
Pronunciation
IAST: kālikā
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कालिका
Letter-by-letter: kālikā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kalika in Indian usage
12,452 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (83.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 2,088 records (16.8%).
- Recorded as male: 10,364 records (83.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 668 |
| 1940s | 1,695 |
| 1950s | 2,499 |
| 1960s | 3,058 |
| 1970s | 2,217 |
| 1980s | 1,572 |
| 1990s | 611 |
| Other decades | 132 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 9,030 |
| Bihar | 1,373 |
| Odisha | 1,018 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 485 |
| Jharkhand | 238 |
| Uttarakhand | 165 |
| Other states | 143 |
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, kālikā, p. 277,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.