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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Vikash

Radiance; unfolding; development

Vikash means “Radiance; unfolding; development”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Hindi
First letter
V
Historical records
2,397

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Vikash mean?

Vikash can continue Sanskrit vikāśa, brightness or manifestation. It is also a familiar regional form of Vikas, whose Sanskrit base describes a flower opening. That second word extends to growth and development more broadly.

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

विकाश

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Vikash in Indian usage

2,397 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Vikash: records by birth decade1980s: 1,0341980s1990s: 1,1131990sOther decades: 250Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1980s1,034
1990s1,113
Other decades250

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Delhi1,598
Andhra Pradesh223
Meghalaya147
Arunachal Pradesh114
Other states315
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, vikāśa, p. 954,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  3. Monier-Williams, vikāsa, p. 954,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.