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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Koshalya

Kaushalya, mother of Rama; woman of Kosala

Koshalya means “Kaushalya, mother of Rama; woman of Kosala”.

Origin language
Hindi / Sanskrit
First letter
K
Historical records
38,921

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Koshalya mean?

Koshalya represents Kaushalya, a name associated with the region of Kosala. In the Ramayana she is the wife of Dasharatha and the mother of Rama.

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

कौशल्या

Conventional spelling

Devanagari

कोशल्या

Letter-by-letter: kośalyā

38,921 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Koshalya in Indian usage

38,921 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

These totals and margins describe the spelling कोशल्या.

Mostly recorded for girls (99.6%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 38,767 records (99.6%).
  • Recorded as male: 154 records (0.4%).

By birth decade

Koshalya: records by birth decade1920s: 1231920s1930s: 1,2141930s1940s: 3,3331940s1950s: 6,2461950s1960s: 10,5341960s1970s: 8,6301970s1980s: 5,9371980s1990s: 2,9041990s
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1920s123
1930s1,214
1940s3,333
1950s6,246
1960s10,534
1970s8,630
1980s5,937
1990s2,904

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Rajasthan15,707
Jharkhand6,454
Bihar5,122
Haryana5,074
Madhya Pradesh4,506
Himachal Pradesh1,077
Uttar Pradesh981
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, kausalya, p. 318,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  3. Monier-Williams, kausalyā, p. 318,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.