MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kera mean?
Kera is a regional northern word for banana, continuing the same fruit vocabulary as kela. Sanskrit kera also occurs as a plant name, so the name has a broader botanical connection in addition to the vernacular fruit sense.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
केरा
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kera in Indian usage
3,400 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 2,562 records (75.4%).
- Recorded as male: 838 records (24.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 344 |
| 1950s | 608 |
| 1960s | 856 |
| 1970s | 812 |
| 1980s | 403 |
| 1990s | 204 |
| Other decades | 173 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,343 |
| Rajasthan | 532 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 295 |
| Other states | 230 |
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, kerā, p. 1325,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.