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Purakharam

Ancestor; Rama

Purakharam means “Ancestor; Rama”.

Origin language
Hindi / Sanskrit
First letter
P
Historical records
6,233

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Purakharam mean?

Purakharam places purkha, an ancestor or forefather, before Rama. The compound joins family remembrance with the devotional name of the Ramayana hero. Rama is the prince of Ayodhya whose exile forms the central journey of the epic.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

पुरखाराम

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Purakharam in Indian usage

6,233 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Purakharam: records by birth decade1940s: 6191940s1950s: 9811950s1960s: 1,1281960s1970s: 1,1681970s1980s: 1,2641980s1990s: 8021990sOther decades: 271Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1940s619
1950s981
1960s1,128
1970s1,168
1980s1,264
1990s802
Other decades271

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Other states6,233
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, rāma, p. 877,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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