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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Parakash

Light; illumination

Parakash means “Light; illumination”.

Origin language
Odia / Sanskrit
First letter
P
Historical records
1,858

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Parakash mean?

Parakash is an Odia vernacular form of Prakash. Sanskrit prakasha denotes light and also the act of making something visible or clear.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

परकाश

Conventional spelling

Odia

ପରକାଶ

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Parakash in Indian usage

1,858 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for boys (81.9%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 337 records (18.1%).
  • Recorded as male: 1,521 records (81.9%).

By birth decade

Parakash: records by birth decade1970s: 3981970s1980s: 7061980s1990s: 5801990sOther decades: 174Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1970s398
1980s706
1990s580
Other decades174

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Odisha1,858
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, prakāśa, p. 653,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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