MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sandesh mean?
Sanskrit sandeśa denotes a message or communication carried to someone. The same noun also names a sweet in Bengali culinary vocabulary, a separate use of the word. The dictionary records a further sense of sandeśa as a gift or present.
Pronunciation
IAST: sandeśa
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सन्देश
Letter-by-letter: sandeśa
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
संदेश
Letter-by-letter: saṃdeśa
5,580 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sandesh in Indian usage
12,431 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (85.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,847 records (14.9%).
- Recorded as male: 10,584 records (85.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 820 |
| 1970s | 2,350 |
| 1980s | 4,522 |
| 1990s | 4,442 |
| Other decades | 297 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,454 |
| Bihar | 2,176 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,705 |
| Goa | 1,610 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,222 |
| Rajasthan | 390 |
| Kerala | 329 |
| Haryana | 316 |
| Delhi | 303 |
| Jharkhand | 244 |
| Uttarakhand | 177 |
| Assam | 154 |
| Maharashtra | 128 |
| Other states | 223 |
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, saṃdeśa, p. 1143,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.