MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Prabhavati mean?
Prabhāvatī adds the feminine possessive ending vatī to prabhā, light, so the name describes possessing radiance. Prabha supplies the radiance noun before the feminine vatī ending.
Pronunciation
IAST: prabhāvatī
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
प्रभावती
Letter-by-letter: prabhāvatī
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Prabhavati in Indian usage
158,542 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 157,693 records (99.5%).
- Recorded as male: 849 records (0.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 4,624 |
| 1940s | 15,327 |
| 1950s | 30,664 |
| 1960s | 48,243 |
| 1970s | 34,623 |
| 1980s | 18,513 |
| 1990s | 5,759 |
| Other decades | 789 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 95,802 |
| Bihar | 49,728 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 3,996 |
| Jharkhand | 3,667 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 1,873 |
| Goa | 867 |
| Rajasthan | 674 |
| Maharashtra | 583 |
| Haryana | 477 |
| Uttarakhand | 435 |
| Punjab | 180 |
| Delhi | 112 |
| Other states | 148 |
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