MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Riyasat mean?
Riyasat comes from Arabic riʾāsa, leadership, through Persian and Urdu. Indian usage extends the noun to a territory ruled by a prince.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
रियासत
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Riyasat in Indian usage
22,425 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (97.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 525 records (2.3%).
- Recorded as male: 21,900 records (97.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,197 |
| 1950s | 2,578 |
| 1960s | 4,542 |
| 1970s | 5,326 |
| 1980s | 5,670 |
| 1990s | 2,730 |
| Other decades | 382 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 18,136 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,525 |
| Bihar | 761 |
| Jharkhand | 625 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 490 |
| Rajasthan | 379 |
| Haryana | 279 |
| Other states | 230 |
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