MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Pankhi mean?
The Hindi word pankh means a wing, and pankhi denotes a bird or winged creature. Its older Sanskrit relative pakshin has the same wing-bearing sense.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पंखी
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Pankhi in Indian usage
4,028 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (90.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 3,642 records (90.4%).
- Recorded as male: 386 records (9.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 334 |
| 1950s | 490 |
| 1960s | 739 |
| 1970s | 636 |
| 1980s | 837 |
| 1990s | 806 |
| Other decades | 186 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 2,245 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,201 |
| Bihar | 275 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 136 |
| Other states | 171 |
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, pakṣin, p. 574,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.