MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Vidha mean?
Vidhā is a Sanskrit noun for a form or manner. Modern Hindi also uses it for a genre of literature or art.
Pronunciation
IAST: vidhā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
विधा
Letter-by-letter: vidhā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Vidha in Indian usage
42,715 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (86.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 36,790 records (86.1%).
- Recorded as male: 5,925 records (13.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,611 |
| 1940s | 4,359 |
| 1950s | 7,531 |
| 1960s | 10,240 |
| 1970s | 7,853 |
| 1980s | 6,691 |
| 1990s | 4,125 |
| Other decades | 305 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 13,352 |
| Rajasthan | 13,195 |
| Bihar | 7,153 |
| Haryana | 3,419 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 3,057 |
| Jharkhand | 1,336 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 806 |
| Other states | 397 |
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, vidhā, p. 967,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.