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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Prachi

East; eastern direction

Prachi means “East; eastern direction”.

Origin language
Sanskrit
First letter
P
Historical records
22,341

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Prachi mean?

Prācī is the feminine directional word for the east in Sanskrit. It can stand with diś, direction, or function on its own with that noun understood.

Pronunciation

IAST: prācī

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

प्राची

Letter-by-letter: prācī

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Prachi in Indian usage

22,341 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for girls (98.7%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 22,047 records (98.7%).
  • Recorded as male: 294 records (1.3%).

By birth decade

Prachi: records by birth decade1970s: 1,3041970s1980s: 7,1321980s1990s: 13,6441990sOther decades: 261Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1970s1,304
1980s7,132
1990s13,644
Other decades261

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Uttar Pradesh9,000
Madhya Pradesh5,092
Rajasthan1,828
Delhi1,566
Bihar1,462
Goa845
Uttarakhand844
Haryana705
Jharkhand343
Odisha231
Punjab125
Maharashtra103
Other states197
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, prācī, p. 703,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.