MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Maheshi mean?
Maheshi is a feminine devotional form related to Mahesha, the great lord Shiva. The Sanskrit goddess-title Maheshi names Durga as the divine power of Mahesha.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
महेशी
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Maheshi in Indian usage
3,570 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: 2,236 records (62.6%).
- Recorded as male: 1,334 records (37.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 388 |
| 1950s | 633 |
| 1960s | 866 |
| 1970s | 752 |
| 1980s | 541 |
| 1990s | 209 |
| Other decades | 181 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttarakhand | 1,270 |
| Bihar | 1,214 |
| Rajasthan | 273 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 222 |
| Jharkhand | 217 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 129 |
| Other states | 245 |
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, maheśa, p. 802,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, māheśī, p. 815,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.