MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Rashmi mean?
Sanskrit raśmi denotes a ray of light and also a rein or cord. Personal naming foregrounds the luminous sense shared with Kiran.
Pronunciation
IAST: raśmi
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
रश्मि
Letter-by-letter: raśmi
Conventional spelling
Odia
ରଶ୍ମି
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
रश्मी
Letter-by-letter: raśmī
24,069 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
रशमी
Letter-by-letter: raśamī
8,883 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Rashmi in Indian usage
127,059 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (97.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 124,091 records (97.7%).
- Recorded as male: 2,968 records (2.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 219 |
| 1950s | 1,465 |
| 1960s | 5,705 |
| 1970s | 19,921 |
| 1980s | 57,867 |
| 1990s | 41,755 |
| Other decades | 127 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 39,625 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 30,154 |
| Odisha | 15,459 |
| Bihar | 13,291 |
| Rajasthan | 5,916 |
| Jharkhand | 5,620 |
| Uttarakhand | 5,588 |
| Delhi | 3,195 |
| Kerala | 2,837 |
| Karnataka | 1,661 |
| Haryana | 1,545 |
| Goa | 806 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 432 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 263 |
| Meghalaya | 122 |
| Chandigarh | 106 |
| Tripura | 104 |
| Other states | 335 |
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
- Wiktionary: रश्मि ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
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