MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kaushik mean?
Kaushika is the Sanskrit patronymic connected with Kushika and is a name of the sage Vishvamitra. The dictionary also records it as a title of Indra and Shiva. In personal naming, Kaushik preserves this old literary and divine name.
Pronunciation
IAST: kauśika
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कौशिक
Letter-by-letter: kauśika
Conventional spelling
Bengali
কৌশিক
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kaushik in Indian usage
7,604 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (86.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,060 records (13.9%).
- Recorded as male: 6,544 records (86.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 309 |
| 1960s | 599 |
| 1970s | 1,238 |
| 1980s | 2,312 |
| 1990s | 2,909 |
| Other decades | 237 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Maharashtra | 1,594 |
| Assam | 1,200 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,107 |
| Tripura | 966 |
| Jharkhand | 962 |
| Bihar | 747 |
| Gujarat | 267 |
| Rajasthan | 231 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 224 |
| Haryana | 118 |
| Other states | 188 |
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, kauśika, p. 318,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.