MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Pancha mean?
Pancha is related to pañca, five, the number behind the word panchayat. In regional speech, panch also denotes a member of such a council or a local elder.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पंचा
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Pancha in Indian usage
6,683 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: 4,193 records (62.7%).
- Recorded as male: 2,490 records (37.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 376 |
| 1940s | 980 |
| 1950s | 1,281 |
| 1960s | 1,768 |
| 1970s | 1,289 |
| 1980s | 616 |
| Other decades | 373 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 4,682 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 823 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 625 |
| Other states | 553 |
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, pañcan, p. 578,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.