MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Phakira mean?
Phakira adapts faqir, an Arabic word for a poor or needy person, through Persian and Hindi usage. In South Asia it also denotes an ascetic or mendicant, the sense most familiar in the personal name.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
फ़कीरा
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
फकीरा
6,060 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Phakira in Indian usage
7,777 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (94%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 465 records (6%).
- Recorded as male: 7,312 records (94%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 573 |
| 1940s | 1,253 |
| 1950s | 1,780 |
| 1960s | 1,817 |
| 1970s | 1,176 |
| 1980s | 756 |
| 1990s | 265 |
| Other decades | 157 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 3,010 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,947 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 942 |
| Rajasthan | 551 |
| Maharashtra | 543 |
| Jharkhand | 249 |
| Gujarat | 186 |
| Haryana | 157 |
| Other states | 192 |
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