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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Kaushal

skill; proficiency

Kaushal means “skill; proficiency”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Hindi
First letter
K
Historical records
102,910

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Kaushal mean?

Kauśala is a skill noun related to kuśala, proficient, and differs from the region-derived feminine name Kaushalya. Kauśala can indicate skill as well as association with Kosala.

Pronunciation

IAST: kauśala

Meaning themes

skill

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

कौशल

Letter-by-letter: kauśala

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Kaushal in Indian usage

102,910 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for boys (80.8%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 19,787 records (19.2%).
  • Recorded as male: 83,123 records (80.8%).

By birth decade

Kaushal: records by birth decade1930s: 6021930s1940s: 2,3631940s1950s: 6,7661950s1960s: 14,9661960s1970s: 21,2571970s1980s: 29,4731980s1990s: 27,3391990sOther decades: 144Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1930s602
1940s2,363
1950s6,766
1960s14,966
1970s21,257
1980s29,473
1990s27,339
Other decades144

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Uttar Pradesh49,862
Bihar26,009
Madhya Pradesh12,068
Rajasthan4,141
Jharkhand3,310
Uttarakhand2,452
Haryana2,276
Maharashtra1,230
Punjab681
Gujarat406
Himachal Pradesh189
Odisha135
Other states151
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. Monier-Williams, kauśala, p. 317,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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