MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kashmir mean?
Kashmir is a geographic name with an old Sanskrit form, Kaśmīra. Its use as a personal name draws on the Himalayan region, without requiring a separate descriptive meaning.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कश्मीर
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kashmir in Indian usage
13,081 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: 2,194 records (16.8%).
- Recorded as male: 10,887 records (83.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 936 |
| 1950s | 1,923 |
| 1960s | 3,065 |
| 1970s | 2,930 |
| 1980s | 2,639 |
| 1990s | 1,286 |
| Other decades | 302 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,838 |
| Haryana | 3,748 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 2,385 |
| Rajasthan | 1,421 |
| Uttarakhand | 947 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 246 |
| Bihar | 201 |
| Jharkhand | 144 |
| Other states | 151 |
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, kaśmīra, p. 265,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: कश्मीर ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.