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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Kausalya

Woman of Kosala; Rama's mother

Kausalya means “Woman of Kosala; Rama's mother”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Malayalam
First letter
K
Historical records
5,941

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Kausalya mean?

Kausalya is the feminine regional name derived from Kosala. In the Ramayana, Kausalya is the queen of Dasharatha and the mother of Rama.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

कौशल्या

Conventional spelling

Malayalam

കൗസല്യ

Conventional spelling

Devanagari

कौसल्या

Letter-by-letter: kausalyā

2,738 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Kausalya in Indian usage

5,941 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Kausalya: records by birth decade1930s: 5981930s1940s: 1,3031940s1950s: 1,6611950s1960s: 1,2311960s1970s: 7021970s1980s: 3271980sOther decades: 119Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1930s598
1940s1,303
1950s1,661
1960s1,231
1970s702
1980s327
Other decades119

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Kerala4,750
Other states1,191
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. Wiktionary: कौसल्या ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    meaning

  3. Wiktionary: कौशल्या ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    meaning

  4. Monier-Williams, rāma, p. 877,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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