MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Pancham mean?
Pañcama is the Sanskrit ordinal for fifth. Indian music also uses Pancham for the fifth note of its scale.
Pronunciation
IAST: pañcama
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पंचम
Letter-by-letter: pañcama
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Pancham in Indian usage
39,560 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (96%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,567 records (4%).
- Recorded as male: 37,993 records (96%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,080 |
| 1940s | 3,497 |
| 1950s | 5,538 |
| 1960s | 7,640 |
| 1970s | 8,259 |
| 1980s | 8,169 |
| 1990s | 5,192 |
| Other decades | 185 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 20,297 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 11,081 |
| Bihar | 3,088 |
| Jharkhand | 2,854 |
| Uttarakhand | 912 |
| Rajasthan | 669 |
| Maharashtra | 210 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 200 |
| Other states | 249 |
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, pañcama, p. 578,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.