MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Pravesh mean?
Praveśa is an entering noun from the Sanskrit root viś with pra. Modern Hindi preserves it in everyday expressions for admission and entry.
Pronunciation
IAST: praveśa
Meaning themes
journey
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
प्रवेश
Letter-by-letter: praveśa
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਪ੍ਰਵੇਸ਼
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Pravesh in Indian usage
91,634 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: 31,105 records (33.9%).
- Recorded as male: 60,529 records (66.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 523 |
| 1950s | 2,077 |
| 1960s | 7,250 |
| 1970s | 16,983 |
| 1980s | 34,367 |
| 1990s | 30,282 |
| Other decades | 152 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 53,553 |
| Bihar | 10,389 |
| Haryana | 8,225 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 6,748 |
| Uttarakhand | 3,110 |
| Jharkhand | 2,667 |
| Rajasthan | 2,187 |
| Punjab | 1,537 |
| Delhi | 1,478 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,305 |
| Chandigarh | 116 |
| Maharashtra | 112 |
| 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, praveśa, p. 692,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.