MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Surekha mean?
Surekhā combines su, good or beautiful, with rekhā, line. The image belongs to drawing and outline.
Pronunciation
IAST: surekhā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सुरेखा
Letter-by-letter: surekhā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Surekha in Indian usage
79,648 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 79,223 records (99.5%).
- Recorded as male: 425 records (0.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,030 |
| 1950s | 3,063 |
| 1960s | 8,071 |
| 1970s | 15,909 |
| 1980s | 23,980 |
| 1990s | 27,189 |
| Other decades | 406 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 19,378 |
| Karnataka | 19,328 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 11,020 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 8,771 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 6,472 |
| Rajasthan | 2,803 |
| Bihar | 1,835 |
| Goa | 1,772 |
| Haryana | 1,551 |
| Maharashtra | 1,502 |
| Punjab | 1,134 |
| Kerala | 1,068 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 783 |
| Jharkhand | 765 |
| Uttarakhand | 537 |
| Delhi | 471 |
| Tripura | 111 |
| Chandigarh | 101 |
| Other states | 246 |
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, surekhā, p. 1232,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.