MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Lekh mean?
Lekh is the Sanskrit-derived word for writing, a letter or a document. Its older senses also include a line or stroke, connecting the finished text with the act of making marks.
Pronunciation
IAST: lekha
Meaning themes
writing
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
लेख
Letter-by-letter: lekha
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਲੇਖ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Lekh in Indian usage
18,574 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 262 records (1.4%).
- Recorded as male: 18,312 records (98.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 597 |
| 1940s | 1,496 |
| 1950s | 2,917 |
| 1960s | 4,313 |
| 1970s | 4,420 |
| 1980s | 3,321 |
| 1990s | 1,378 |
| Other decades | 132 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Himachal Pradesh | 6,593 |
| Punjab | 2,952 |
| Haryana | 2,815 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,663 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,633 |
| Rajasthan | 1,285 |
| Delhi | 1,054 |
| Bihar | 199 |
| Chandigarh | 115 |
| Other states | 265 |
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, lekha, p. 901,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.