MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Prakashi mean?
Prakashi is formed from prakāś, light or illumination. The ending gives the name the sense of one who shines, continuing a Sanskrit-derived adjective in vernacular naming.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
प्रकाशी
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Prakashi in Indian usage
19,255 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (98.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 18,943 records (98.4%).
- Recorded as male: 312 records (1.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,427 |
| 1940s | 3,378 |
| 1950s | 4,258 |
| 1960s | 4,602 |
| 1970s | 2,706 |
| 1980s | 1,808 |
| 1990s | 837 |
| Other decades | 239 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 9,240 |
| Rajasthan | 3,945 |
| Haryana | 3,776 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,281 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 658 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 183 |
| Other states | 172 |
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, prakāśin, p. 653,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.