MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Vashishth mean?
Vashishth names the Vedic sage traditionally connected with many hymns of the Rigveda. The underlying Sanskrit superlative vasishtha expresses being the best or most excellent.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
वशिष्ठ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Vashishth in Indian usage
11,320 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling वशिष्ठ.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 266 |
| 1940s | 1,040 |
| 1950s | 1,909 |
| 1960s | 2,847 |
| 1970s | 2,749 |
| 1980s | 1,778 |
| 1990s | 731 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 6,631 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 4,404 |
| Other states | 285 |
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, vasiṣṭha, p. 930,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.