MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kesho mean?
Kesho is a familiar northern form of Keshav, the Sanskrit divine name Keshava. Keshava is a title of Krishna and Vishnu, so the short name retains a specific devotional reference.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
केशो
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kesho in Indian usage
8,615 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling केशो.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 2,681 records (31.1%).
- Recorded as male: 5,934 records (68.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 638 |
| 1940s | 1,514 |
| 1950s | 2,116 |
| 1960s | 2,197 |
| 1970s | 1,380 |
| 1980s | 557 |
| Other decades | 213 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 4,148 |
| Jharkhand | 1,938 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,122 |
| Haryana | 939 |
| Rajasthan | 356 |
| Other states | 112 |
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, keśava, p. 310,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.