MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Vikesh mean?
Vikesh corresponds to Sanskrit vikeśa, an adjective for loose or dishevelled hair. The dictionary also records a hairless sense, so the name has two lexical readings within the same Sanskrit word.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
विकेश
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Vikesh in Indian usage
17,582 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (97.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 481 records (2.7%).
- Recorded as male: 17,101 records (97.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 173 |
| 1970s | 1,164 |
| 1980s | 6,037 |
| 1990s | 10,108 |
| Other decades | 100 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 8,491 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,500 |
| Rajasthan | 1,665 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,363 |
| Jharkhand | 951 |
| Haryana | 489 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 489 |
| Uttarakhand | 399 |
| Other states | 235 |
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, vikeśa, p. 950,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.