MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Vikas mean?
Opening and expansion, including the unfolding of a flower, belong to Sanskrit vikāsa. Modern Hindi extends the word to growth and development.
Pronunciation
IAST: vikāsa
Meaning themes
growth
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
विकास
Letter-by-letter: vikāsa
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Vikas in Indian usage
594,079 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 3,895 records (0.7%).
- Recorded as male: 590,184 records (99.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 695 |
| 1930s | 151 |
| 1940s | 385 |
| 1950s | 1,215 |
| 1960s | 7,427 |
| 1970s | 49,166 |
| 1980s | 212,505 |
| 1990s | 322,413 |
| Other decades | 122 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 181,312 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 166,079 |
| Haryana | 53,910 |
| Rajasthan | 49,539 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 42,109 |
| Jharkhand | 38,880 |
| Delhi | 22,814 |
| Punjab | 14,796 |
| Uttarakhand | 12,029 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 7,519 |
| Chandigarh | 1,488 |
| Kerala | 1,366 |
| Maharashtra | 828 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 691 |
| Goa | 473 |
| Other states | 246 |
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, vikāsa, p. 954,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: विकास ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.