MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Prakash mean?
Prakāśa has a noun sense of light and an adjective sense of visible or manifest. It derives from the Sanskrit root kāś, to shine, with the prefix pra.
Pronunciation
IAST: prakāśa
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
प्रकाश
Letter-by-letter: prakāśa
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Prakash in Indian usage
516,149 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (90.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 48,714 records (9.4%).
- Recorded as male: 467,435 records (90.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 1,731 |
| 1930s | 6,958 |
| 1940s | 19,622 |
| 1950s | 39,625 |
| 1960s | 74,489 |
| 1970s | 108,056 |
| 1980s | 147,492 |
| 1990s | 117,991 |
| Other decades | 185 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 112,470 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 100,436 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 71,375 |
| Bihar | 63,472 |
| Jharkhand | 37,012 |
| Punjab | 28,011 |
| Haryana | 20,975 |
| Uttarakhand | 20,598 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 13,021 |
| Kerala | 11,616 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 11,083 |
| Delhi | 9,762 |
| Maharashtra | 4,400 |
| Goa | 3,679 |
| Assam | 3,245 |
| Puducherry | 1,261 |
| Tripura | 799 |
| Chandigarh | 686 |
| Sikkim | 635 |
| Meghalaya | 330 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 282 |
| Manipur | 281 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 253 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 141 |
| Nagaland | 119 |
| Other states | 207 |
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, prakāśa, p. 653,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Behind the Name: Prakash ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.