MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Vilas mean?
Vilas comes from Sanskrit vilāsa, a word for play, pleasure and charm. Sanskrit dramaturgy also uses the word for a graceful expressive gesture, giving the name an artistic association.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
विलास
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Vilas in Indian usage
15,895 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling विलास.
Mostly recorded for boys (89.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,698 records (10.7%).
- Recorded as male: 14,197 records (89.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,164 |
| 1950s | 2,626 |
| 1960s | 4,099 |
| 1970s | 4,012 |
| 1980s | 2,477 |
| 1990s | 1,084 |
| Other decades | 433 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 10,177 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,993 |
| Jharkhand | 1,268 |
| Maharashtra | 1,192 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 904 |
| Rajasthan | 361 |
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, vilāsa, p. 985,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.