MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Vishesh mean?
Vishesha is a Sanskrit noun for a distinguishing feature or special quality. The word can also denote excellence, and in philosophy it names the particularity that distinguishes one thing from another.
Pronunciation
IAST: viśeṣa
Meaning themes
excellence
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
विशेष
Letter-by-letter: viśeṣa
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Vishesh in Indian usage
7,685 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (92%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 618 records (8%).
- Recorded as male: 7,067 records (92%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 536 |
| 1970s | 1,102 |
| 1980s | 2,527 |
| 1990s | 3,278 |
| Other decades | 242 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 5,450 |
| Haryana | 424 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 418 |
| Bihar | 389 |
| Rajasthan | 378 |
| Uttarakhand | 357 |
| Jharkhand | 126 |
| Other states | 143 |
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, viśeṣa, p. 990,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.