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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Vanshi

Flute

Vanshi means “Flute”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Hindi
First letter
V
Historical records
10,736

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Vanshi mean?

Vanshi is the Sanskrit word for a flute or pipe. The instrument supplies a pastoral and musical image and is especially prominent in depictions of Krishna.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

वंशी

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Vanshi in Indian usage

10,736 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

These totals and margins describe the spelling वंशी.

Mostly recorded for boys (96.6%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 364 records (3.4%).
  • Recorded as male: 10,372 records (96.6%).

By birth decade

Vanshi: records by birth decade1930s: 5861930s1940s: 1,6151940s1950s: 2,2711950s1960s: 2,5211960s1970s: 1,8551970s1980s: 1,3981980sOther decades: 490Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1930s586
1940s1,615
1950s2,271
1960s2,521
1970s1,855
1980s1,398
Other decades490

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Uttar Pradesh5,768
Jharkhand2,059
Bihar2,004
Madhya Pradesh905
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, vaṃśī, p. 910,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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