MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Videshi mean?
Videshi is formed from videsh, another country or a foreign land. The adjective is also used as a personal name in North Indian vernacular naming.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
विदेशी
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Videshi in Indian usage
10,093 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling विदेशी.
Mostly recorded for boys (97.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 280 records (2.8%).
- Recorded as male: 9,813 records (97.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,163 |
| 1950s | 1,708 |
| 1960s | 2,288 |
| 1970s | 2,114 |
| 1980s | 1,706 |
| 1990s | 646 |
| Other decades | 468 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 4,631 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,318 |
| Other states | 2,144 |
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