MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Phekani mean?
Phekani comes from the Hindi verb phenkna, to throw. It belongs to older protective naming in which an unwanted or discarded image could express a hope that a vulnerable child would survive.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
फेंकनी
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
फेकनी
Letter-by-letter: phekanī
7,108 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Phekani in Indian usage
7,500 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 458 |
| 1940s | 1,018 |
| 1950s | 1,368 |
| 1960s | 2,095 |
| 1970s | 1,602 |
| 1980s | 689 |
| 1990s | 151 |
| Other decades | 119 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,916 |
| Bihar | 2,539 |
| Other states | 1,045 |
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