MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Prasad mean?
Prasāda can denote graciousness and favour in Sanskrit. It also names food offered in worship and received as a blessing.
Pronunciation
IAST: prasāda
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
प्रसाद
Letter-by-letter: prasāda
Conventional spelling
Gujarati
પ્રસાદ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Prasad in Indian usage
51,048 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 13,595 records (26.6%).
- Recorded as male: 37,453 records (73.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 725 |
| 1940s | 2,254 |
| 1950s | 4,865 |
| 1960s | 8,777 |
| 1970s | 14,564 |
| 1980s | 14,627 |
| 1990s | 5,052 |
| Other decades | 184 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Maharashtra | 26,650 |
| Gujarat | 7,014 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 6,484 |
| Bihar | 3,438 |
| Jharkhand | 2,960 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,690 |
| Assam | 632 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 462 |
| Rajasthan | 335 |
| Haryana | 114 |
| Other states | 269 |
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, prasāda, p. 697,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.