MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Mukhatar mean?
Mukhtar is the Arabic participle for someone chosen or selected. Urdu also uses the word for an authorized agent, connecting selection with the power to act on another's behalf.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
मुख़्तार
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਮੁਖਤਾਰ
Conventional spelling
Arabic
مختار
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Mukhatar in Indian usage
14,788 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (96.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 575 records (3.9%).
- Recorded as male: 14,213 records (96.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 606 |
| 1940s | 1,583 |
| 1950s | 2,303 |
| 1960s | 3,439 |
| 1970s | 3,493 |
| 1980s | 2,378 |
| 1990s | 840 |
| Other decades | 146 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Punjab | 7,725 |
| Bihar | 2,499 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,073 |
| Jharkhand | 958 |
| Rajasthan | 543 |
| Maharashtra | 486 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 245 |
| Other states | 259 |
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: مختار ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.