MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Anasuya mean?
Anasuya combines the negative prefix an with asūyā, “envy or ill will”. In sacred narrative Anasuya is Atri's wife and the mother of Dattatreya. Anasuya is also one of Shakuntala’s friends in Sanskrit drama.
Pronunciation
IAST: anasūyā
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
अनसूया
Letter-by-letter: anasūyā
Conventional spelling
Telugu
అనసూయ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Anasuya in Indian usage
12,066 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,321 |
| 1950s | 2,412 |
| 1960s | 2,808 |
| 1970s | 2,421 |
| 1980s | 2,038 |
| 1990s | 749 |
| Other decades | 317 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Andhra Pradesh | 11,684 |
| Other states | 382 |
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, anasūyā, p. 27,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: अनसूया ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.