MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Suk mean?
Suk can represent the vernacular sukh, “happiness”, or a regional form of śuka, “parrot”. The first belongs to well-being names, while the second is a bird word also used in personal naming.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सुक
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Suk in Indian usage
12,834 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: 5,075 records (39.5%).
- Recorded as male: 7,759 records (60.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 457 |
| 1940s | 1,057 |
| 1950s | 1,937 |
| 1960s | 2,784 |
| 1970s | 3,274 |
| 1980s | 2,052 |
| 1990s | 1,143 |
| Other decades | 130 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Maharashtra | 3,556 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,607 |
| Sikkim | 1,684 |
| Bihar | 1,564 |
| Jharkhand | 1,549 |
| Odisha | 423 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 295 |
| Meghalaya | 256 |
| Rajasthan | 232 |
| Assam | 204 |
| Other states | 464 |
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, suka, p. 1220,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, śuka, p. 1079,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.