MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Videsh mean?
Sanskrit videsha denotes another country or a foreign land. The word is still used in Hindi for travel, residence or life abroad.
Pronunciation
IAST: videśa
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
विदेश
Letter-by-letter: videśa
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Videsh in Indian usage
3,988 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (82.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 710 records (17.8%).
- Recorded as male: 3,278 records (82.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 392 |
| 1970s | 817 |
| 1980s | 1,449 |
| 1990s | 1,173 |
| Other decades | 157 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,707 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 824 |
| Bihar | 470 |
| Jharkhand | 387 |
| Rajasthan | 273 |
| Haryana | 120 |
| Other states | 207 |
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, videśa, p. 966,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.