MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Rishikesh mean?
Rishikesh can be understood as ṛṣi, sage, and īśa, lord. The Uttarakhand town Rishikesh is also connected with the title Hrishikesha of Vishnu, whose different Sanskrit base means lord of the senses. The town stands on the Ganga near the Himalayan foothills.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
ऋषिकेश
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Rishikesh in Indian usage
14,505 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling ऋषिकेश.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1970s | 1,769 |
| 1980s | 5,045 |
| 1990s | 7,116 |
| Other decades | 575 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 5,740 |
| Bihar | 4,245 |
| Rajasthan | 2,237 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,586 |
| Jharkhand | 697 |
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: ऋषिकेश ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, hṛṣīka, p. 1303,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, hṛṣīkeśa, p. 1303,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, hṛṣīkanātha, p. 1303,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.