MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kishore mean?
Kiśora has an animal sense colt as well as a human youth sense; the human sense answers the personal-name question. Kishori is the related feminine word for a young girl.
Pronunciation
IAST: kiśora
Meaning themes
youth
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
किशोर
Letter-by-letter: kiśora
Conventional spelling
Bengali
কিশোর
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kishore in Indian usage
171,470 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (97%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 5,121 records (3%).
- Recorded as male: 166,349 records (97%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,380 |
| 1940s | 4,418 |
| 1950s | 12,732 |
| 1960s | 27,992 |
| 1970s | 41,253 |
| 1980s | 50,354 |
| 1990s | 32,860 |
| Other decades | 481 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 32,293 |
| Rajasthan | 29,304 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 28,085 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 21,539 |
| Jharkhand | 15,516 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 14,219 |
| Odisha | 10,755 |
| Uttarakhand | 4,364 |
| Haryana | 3,043 |
| Tripura | 2,589 |
| Punjab | 2,208 |
| Kerala | 1,971 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,627 |
| Maharashtra | 1,611 |
| Assam | 582 |
| Gujarat | 567 |
| Delhi | 258 |
| Chandigarh | 180 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 131 |
| Meghalaya | 128 |
| Puducherry | 116 |
| Goa | 106 |
| Other states | 278 |
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, kiśora, p. 284,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: किशोर ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Behind the Name: Kishore ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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