MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Prabhat mean?
Prabhāta denotes the arrival of morning or dawn. In Sanskrit prabhāta is also a participial form referring to the day becoming light.
Pronunciation
IAST: prabhāta
Meaning themes
dawnlight
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
प्रभात
Letter-by-letter: prabhāta
Conventional spelling
Bengali
প্রভাত
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Prabhat in Indian usage
69,536 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (97.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,743 records (2.5%).
- Recorded as male: 67,793 records (97.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 762 |
| 1940s | 2,025 |
| 1950s | 3,939 |
| 1960s | 7,294 |
| 1970s | 13,216 |
| 1980s | 21,261 |
| 1990s | 20,684 |
| Other decades | 355 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 23,741 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 19,995 |
| Jharkhand | 5,514 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 4,927 |
| Rajasthan | 4,167 |
| Assam | 3,315 |
| Delhi | 2,234 |
| Tripura | 1,231 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,049 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,025 |
| Haryana | 908 |
| Punjab | 563 |
| Odisha | 211 |
| Maharashtra | 134 |
| Other states | 522 |
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, prabhāta, p. 684,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.