MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sulekha mean?
Su contributes beauty or excellence and lekha denotes writing or a line. The feminine compound gives Sulekha an association with handwriting, artistic strokes and written expression.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सुलेखा
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
സുലേഖ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sulekha in Indian usage
8,750 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (97.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 8,547 records (97.7%).
- Recorded as male: 203 records (2.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 386 |
| 1950s | 1,155 |
| 1960s | 2,395 |
| 1970s | 2,713 |
| 1980s | 1,494 |
| 1990s | 496 |
| Other decades | 111 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 6,500 |
| Delhi | 1,582 |
| Odisha | 239 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 109 |
| Meghalaya | 102 |
| Other states | 218 |
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, lekhā, p. 901,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.