MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Prakasho mean?
Prakasho is a northern feminine development of Prakash. The underlying Sanskrit word prakāśa denotes light, radiance or manifestation.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
प्रकाशो
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Prakasho in Indian usage
12,841 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 12,717 records (99%).
- Recorded as male: 124 records (1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 958 |
| 1940s | 2,478 |
| 1950s | 3,647 |
| 1960s | 3,333 |
| 1970s | 1,654 |
| 1980s | 510 |
| Other decades | 261 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Haryana | 5,056 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,170 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 2,167 |
| Punjab | 2,022 |
| Uttarakhand | 229 |
| Other states | 197 |
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)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.