MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Prayag mean?
Prayag has the traditional Sanskrit meaning place of sacrifice. It names the sacred confluence of the Ganga and Yamuna. The place appears in pilgrimage descriptions in texts such as the Mahabharata.
Pronunciation
IAST: prayāga
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
प्रयाग
Letter-by-letter: prayāga
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Prayag in Indian usage
19,139 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (90.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,820 records (9.5%).
- Recorded as male: 17,319 records (90.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 905 |
| 1940s | 2,135 |
| 1950s | 3,644 |
| 1960s | 4,172 |
| 1970s | 3,731 |
| 1980s | 2,813 |
| 1990s | 1,531 |
| Other decades | 208 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Jharkhand | 6,462 |
| Bihar | 6,249 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,935 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,444 |
| Uttarakhand | 789 |
| Rajasthan | 560 |
| Maharashtra | 444 |
| Other states | 256 |
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, prayāga, p. 687,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.