MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Menaka mean?
Menaka is the apsara associated with Vishvamitra in Sanskrit narratives. Their daughter Shakuntala gives the name a further connection to classical drama.
Pronunciation
IAST: menakā
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
मेनका
Letter-by-letter: menakā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Menaka in Indian usage
44,509 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 44,134 records (99.2%).
- Recorded as male: 375 records (0.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 493 |
| 1940s | 1,291 |
| 1950s | 2,622 |
| 1960s | 4,331 |
| 1970s | 6,554 |
| 1980s | 15,877 |
| 1990s | 13,188 |
| Other decades | 153 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 10,216 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 9,655 |
| Jharkhand | 5,898 |
| Bihar | 5,759 |
| Rajasthan | 3,102 |
| Haryana | 2,330 |
| Assam | 1,660 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,509 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 872 |
| Uttarakhand | 871 |
| Kerala | 733 |
| Tripura | 637 |
| Punjab | 494 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 234 |
| Karnataka | 161 |
| Other states | 378 |
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, menakā, p. 833,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: मेनका ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.