MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Mahak mean?
The everyday Hindi and Urdu word mahak evokes the scent of flowers and other fragrant things. It belongs to the vocabulary of smelling and giving off fragrance used in descriptive poetry.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
महक
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Mahak in Indian usage
7,468 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 5,028 records (67.3%).
- Recorded as male: 2,440 records (32.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 348 |
| 1960s | 528 |
| 1970s | 671 |
| 1980s | 2,340 |
| 1990s | 3,348 |
| Other decades | 233 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,097 |
| Haryana | 1,484 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,017 |
| Rajasthan | 611 |
| Uttarakhand | 440 |
| Delhi | 411 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 119 |
| Chandigarh | 117 |
| Other states | 172 |
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