MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Pushkar mean?
Puṣkara is a Sanskrit word for the blue lotus. It can figuratively denote the heart in epic usage. Pushkar also names the pilgrimage place near Ajmer.
Pronunciation
IAST: puṣkara
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पुष्कर
Letter-by-letter: puṣkara
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Pushkar in Indian usage
21,768 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 208 records (1%).
- Recorded as male: 21,560 records (99%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 489 |
| 1950s | 1,096 |
| 1960s | 2,345 |
| 1970s | 4,006 |
| 1980s | 6,946 |
| 1990s | 6,712 |
| Other decades | 174 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttarakhand | 7,391 |
| Rajasthan | 5,195 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,682 |
| Bihar | 1,786 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,427 |
| Delhi | 856 |
| Haryana | 720 |
| Jharkhand | 470 |
| Other states | 241 |
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, puṣkara, p. 638,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.