MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kaushalya mean?
Kauśalyā is Rama's mother in the Ramayana, and the name relates to Kosala. In the Ramayana she belongs to the royal household of Ayodhya as Dasharatha's wife.
Pronunciation
IAST: kauśalyā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कौशल्या
Letter-by-letter: kauśalyā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kaushalya in Indian usage
284,383 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 283,495 records (99.7%).
- Recorded as male: 888 records (0.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 2,598 |
| 1930s | 10,577 |
| 1940s | 24,517 |
| 1950s | 41,252 |
| 1960s | 74,844 |
| 1970s | 55,432 |
| 1980s | 52,477 |
| 1990s | 22,477 |
| Other decades | 209 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 94,989 |
| Rajasthan | 42,535 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 29,291 |
| Odisha | 27,648 |
| Jharkhand | 27,188 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 24,322 |
| Haryana | 16,250 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 13,313 |
| Uttarakhand | 6,264 |
| Assam | 1,096 |
| Maharashtra | 728 |
| Chandigarh | 415 |
| Other states | 344 |
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, kausalya, p. 318,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, kausalyā, p. 318,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.