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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Kelash

Mount Kailasa, Shiva's abode

Kelash means “Mount Kailasa, Shiva's abode”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Hindi
First letter
K
Historical records
29,141

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Kelash mean?

Kelash is a vernacular form of Kailash, the mountain associated with Shiva. Sanskrit Kailasa also appears as a name for a temple form, extending the mountain's sacred image into architecture.

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

कैलाश

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Kelash in Indian usage

29,141 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

These totals and margins describe the spelling केलाश.

Mostly recorded for boys (85.8%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 4,145 records (14.2%).
  • Recorded as male: 24,996 records (85.8%).

By birth decade

Kelash: records by birth decade1950s: 2,4951950s1960s: 7,4531960s1970s: 10,7981970s1980s: 4,9551980s1990s: 2,9251990sOther decades: 515Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1950s2,495
1960s7,453
1970s10,798
1980s4,955
1990s2,925
Other decades515

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Madhya Pradesh18,412
Rajasthan7,583
Haryana2,165
Uttar Pradesh445
Bihar436
Jharkhand100
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, kailāsa, p. 311,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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