MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kushal mean?
Sanskrit kuśala describes skill and competence. As a noun it also denotes welfare or well-being. The welfare sense survives in greetings and enquiries after another’s health.
Pronunciation
IAST: kuśala
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कुशल
Letter-by-letter: kuśala
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
कुशाल
Letter-by-letter: kuśāla
5,417 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kushal in Indian usage
25,139 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (87.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 3,138 records (12.5%).
- Recorded as male: 22,001 records (87.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 822 |
| 1950s | 1,653 |
| 1960s | 3,023 |
| 1970s | 4,163 |
| 1980s | 7,479 |
| 1990s | 7,666 |
| Other decades | 333 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 5,617 |
| Rajasthan | 4,614 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 3,721 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 2,349 |
| Assam | 2,289 |
| Jharkhand | 1,552 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,544 |
| Haryana | 1,343 |
| Punjab | 970 |
| Bihar | 503 |
| Maharashtra | 426 |
| Other states | 211 |
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, kuśala, p. 297,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.