MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Prabhakar mean?
Prabhā is radiance and kara describes its maker or source. The resulting solar name is also recorded as an epithet of Shiva.
Pronunciation
IAST: prabhākara
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
प्रभाकर
Letter-by-letter: prabhākara
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Prabhakar in Indian usage
52,651 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (95.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 2,156 records (4.1%).
- Recorded as male: 50,495 records (95.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 729 |
| 1940s | 1,840 |
| 1950s | 4,116 |
| 1960s | 7,511 |
| 1970s | 11,415 |
| 1980s | 14,970 |
| 1990s | 11,911 |
| Other decades | 159 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 14,259 |
| Bihar | 10,400 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 9,177 |
| Odisha | 4,959 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 4,923 |
| Jharkhand | 2,767 |
| Maharashtra | 2,049 |
| Goa | 1,277 |
| Delhi | 807 |
| Uttarakhand | 519 |
| Rajasthan | 476 |
| Haryana | 254 |
| Gujarat | 191 |
| Other states | 593 |
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, prabhākara, p. 683,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.