MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kesha mean?
Kesha has the Sanskrit base keśa, hair. As a familiar form of Keshav, it also invokes Vishnu or Krishna through an epithet describing beautiful or abundant hair.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
केशा
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kesha in Indian usage
7,239 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling केशा.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 4,280 records (59.1%).
- Recorded as male: 2,959 records (40.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 137 |
| 1940s | 423 |
| 1950s | 937 |
| 1960s | 1,544 |
| 1970s | 1,727 |
| 1980s | 1,690 |
| 1990s | 781 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,742 |
| Rajasthan | 2,886 |
| Other states | 611 |
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, keśa, p. 310,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, keśava, p. 310,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.