MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Nek mean?
Nek is the Persian adjective for good or virtuous, adopted into Urdu and Hindi. It appears in compounds such as Nekchand, where the moral adjective qualifies the second element.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
नेक
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਨੇਕ
1,848 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Nek in Indian usage
10,685 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (88.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,187 records (11.1%).
- Recorded as male: 9,498 records (88.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 894 |
| 1950s | 1,493 |
| 1960s | 2,276 |
| 1970s | 2,439 |
| 1980s | 2,120 |
| 1990s | 1,076 |
| Other decades | 387 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,535 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 2,254 |
| Punjab | 1,952 |
| Bihar | 1,685 |
| Rajasthan | 793 |
| Haryana | 488 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 368 |
| Uttarakhand | 197 |
| Jharkhand | 149 |
| Maharashtra | 104 |
| Other states | 160 |
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