MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sakhiya mean?
The Hindi word sakhi supplies the affectionate feminine form Sakhiya. In songs and everyday address, sakhi is a woman addressed as a close companion.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सखिया
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sakhiya in Indian usage
5,874 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling सखिया.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 421 |
| 1940s | 1,044 |
| 1950s | 1,315 |
| 1960s | 1,621 |
| 1970s | 1,138 |
| Other decades | 335 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 2,447 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,713 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,378 |
| Jharkhand | 336 |
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, sakhī, p. 1130,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.