MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Rekha mean?
Rekhā describes a drawn line, outline or streak, so the name comes from a concrete visual word. The Sanskrit noun can also describe a painted streak or a visible outline.
Pronunciation
IAST: rekhā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
रेखा
Letter-by-letter: rekhā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Rekha in Indian usage
1,320,002 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,312,969 records (99.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 929 |
| 1930s | 1,500 |
| 1940s | 5,321 |
| 1950s | 22,359 |
| 1960s | 102,738 |
| 1970s | 307,813 |
| 1980s | 529,385 |
| 1990s | 349,762 |
| Other decades | 195 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 387,819 |
| Bihar | 274,185 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 188,670 |
| Rajasthan | 177,088 |
| Haryana | 73,895 |
| Jharkhand | 62,475 |
| Uttarakhand | 33,505 |
| Punjab | 30,411 |
| Karnataka | 22,352 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 16,329 |
| Kerala | 12,805 |
| Delhi | 11,411 |
| Odisha | 9,008 |
| Tripura | 6,256 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 3,811 |
| Chandigarh | 2,127 |
| Maharashtra | 1,985 |
| Goa | 1,793 |
| Assam | 1,684 |
| Meghalaya | 585 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 416 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 297 |
| Puducherry | 282 |
| Sikkim | 237 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 169 |
| Nagaland | 144 |
| Manipur | 115 |
| Other states | 148 |
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, rekhā, p. 887,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: रेखा ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.