MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kehar mean?
Kehar continues the North Indian lion word related to Sanskrit kesarin, the maned one. The image appears in Punjabi masculine naming and in longer names containing Kehar.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
केहर
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਕੇਹਰ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kehar in Indian usage
11,752 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 131 records (1.1%).
- Recorded as male: 11,621 records (98.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 857 |
| 1940s | 1,706 |
| 1950s | 2,121 |
| 1960s | 2,305 |
| 1970s | 1,946 |
| 1980s | 1,536 |
| 1990s | 1,000 |
| Other decades | 281 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Punjab | 2,789 |
| Haryana | 2,513 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 2,494 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,644 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,540 |
| Rajasthan | 396 |
| Uttarakhand | 252 |
| Other states | 124 |
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, keśarin, p. 311,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.