MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Keshari mean?
Keshari can continue Sanskrit keśarin, a maned animal, especially a lion. In vernacular use it can also evoke kesar, saffron, giving the name a second familiar colour association.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
केशरी
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Keshari in Indian usage
29,120 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling केशरी.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 20,678 records (71%).
- Recorded as male: 8,442 records (29%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 2,040 |
| 1940s | 4,317 |
| 1950s | 5,453 |
| 1960s | 6,457 |
| 1970s | 4,772 |
| 1980s | 3,815 |
| 1990s | 1,817 |
| Other decades | 449 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 9,042 |
| Rajasthan | 8,540 |
| Bihar | 4,625 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 4,573 |
| Jharkhand | 1,543 |
| Maharashtra | 562 |
| Other states | 235 |
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.