MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sudesh mean?
Sudeśa combines su, good, with deśa, a country or region. The second word can denote a locality as well as an entire country.
Pronunciation
IAST: sudeśa
Meaning themes
places
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सुदेश
Letter-by-letter: sudeśa
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਸੁਦੇਸ਼
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sudesh in Indian usage
122,088 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 94,547 records (77.4%).
- Recorded as male: 27,541 records (22.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 4,743 |
| 1950s | 10,647 |
| 1960s | 24,432 |
| 1970s | 37,005 |
| 1980s | 33,617 |
| 1990s | 10,810 |
| Other decades | 834 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Haryana | 57,042 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 26,740 |
| Delhi | 10,613 |
| Punjab | 6,526 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 5,212 |
| Rajasthan | 4,261 |
| Uttarakhand | 3,609 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,174 |
| Bihar | 1,937 |
| Jharkhand | 1,344 |
| Chandigarh | 1,125 |
| Goa | 991 |
| Kerala | 157 |
| Other states | 357 |
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, deśa, p. 496,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.