MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Manak mean?
Modern Hindi manak denotes a standard or benchmark. A separate North Indian name Manak can continue manik, “ruby”, so its native vowels determine which image a family intends.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
मानक
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Manak in Indian usage
2,258 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: 850 records (37.6%).
- Recorded as male: 1,408 records (62.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 279 |
| 1950s | 421 |
| 1960s | 515 |
| 1970s | 479 |
| 1980s | 298 |
| 1990s | 131 |
| Other decades | 135 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 762 |
| Bihar | 607 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 482 |
| Delhi | 188 |
| Other states | 219 |
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
- Wiktionary: मानक ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
- Monier-Williams, māṇikya, p. 806,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.