MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sukha mean?
The name Sukha draws on sukh, the familiar word for happiness and ease. It also occurs as an affectionate shortening of longer names beginning with Sukh.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सुखा
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
सूखा
Letter-by-letter: sūkhā
2,123 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sukha in Indian usage
13,785 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: 4,529 records (32.9%).
- Recorded as male: 9,256 records (67.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 651 |
| 1940s | 1,426 |
| 1950s | 2,094 |
| 1960s | 2,997 |
| 1970s | 2,624 |
| 1980s | 2,345 |
| 1990s | 1,488 |
| Other decades | 160 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 5,617 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,782 |
| Punjab | 2,393 |
| Haryana | 1,156 |
| Bihar | 816 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 396 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 227 |
| Jharkhand | 167 |
| Other states | 231 |
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, sukha, p. 1221,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.