MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Prabhash mean?
Prabhash can reflect Prabhasa, the Sanskrit name carrying splendour or beauty. Sanskrit prabhasha separately denotes a declaration or doctrine, giving the conventional personal form two lexical interpretations.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
प्रभाष
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Prabhash in Indian usage
9,418 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 138 records (1.5%).
- Recorded as male: 9,280 records (98.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 484 |
| 1960s | 1,236 |
| 1970s | 2,078 |
| 1980s | 2,812 |
| 1990s | 2,606 |
| Other decades | 202 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 6,199 |
| Jharkhand | 1,243 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,209 |
| Uttarakhand | 209 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 187 |
| Tripura | 108 |
| Assam | 106 |
| Other states | 157 |
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, prabhāsa, p. 684,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, prabhāṣa, p. 684,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.