MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Khem mean?
Khem is the vernacular development of Sanskrit kṣema. The older noun brings together safety, peaceful rest and prosperity.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
खेम
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Khem in Indian usage
25,827 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (95.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,104 records (4.3%).
- Recorded as male: 24,723 records (95.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 697 |
| 1940s | 1,867 |
| 1950s | 3,223 |
| 1960s | 4,944 |
| 1970s | 5,809 |
| 1980s | 5,625 |
| 1990s | 3,505 |
| Other decades | 157 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 6,191 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 6,164 |
| Rajasthan | 3,655 |
| Haryana | 3,330 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,559 |
| Punjab | 1,397 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,326 |
| Jharkhand | 437 |
| Sikkim | 197 |
| Assam | 151 |
| Chandigarh | 117 |
| Other states | 303 |
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, kṣema, p. 332,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.