MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Megha mean?
Megha is the Sanskrit cloud noun used in personal naming. In poetry the word frequently carries the image of rain-bearing monsoon clouds.
Pronunciation
IAST: meghā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
मेघा
Letter-by-letter: meghā
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਮੇਘਾ
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
मेघ
Letter-by-letter: megha
10,231 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Gurmukhi
ਮੇਘ
951 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Megha in Indian usage
59,027 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: 40,326 records (68.3%).
- Recorded as male: 18,701 records (31.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 783 |
| 1940s | 2,065 |
| 1950s | 3,296 |
| 1960s | 4,956 |
| 1970s | 5,944 |
| 1980s | 17,541 |
| 1990s | 24,223 |
| Other decades | 219 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 11,199 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 10,106 |
| Rajasthan | 8,836 |
| Delhi | 3,890 |
| Haryana | 3,693 |
| Bihar | 3,667 |
| Kerala | 3,281 |
| Punjab | 2,820 |
| Karnataka | 2,179 |
| Uttarakhand | 2,058 |
| Jharkhand | 1,865 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,641 |
| Odisha | 1,048 |
| Maharashtra | 872 |
| Gujarat | 420 |
| Goa | 407 |
| Chandigarh | 274 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 260 |
| Assam | 235 |
| Other states | 276 |
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, megha, p. 831,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: मेघ ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.