MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Annapurna mean?
Anna denotes food and pūrṇā fullness or abundance. Annapurna is a form of the goddess associated with feeding and nourishment. Annapurna is traditionally identified with Parvati and is especially revered at Varanasi.
Pronunciation
IAST: annapūrṇā
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
अन्नपूर्णा
Letter-by-letter: annapūrṇā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Annapurna in Indian usage
39,373 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (98.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 38,953 records (98.9%).
- Recorded as male: 420 records (1.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 780 |
| 1940s | 2,251 |
| 1950s | 4,097 |
| 1960s | 6,439 |
| 1970s | 7,708 |
| 1980s | 10,851 |
| 1990s | 7,067 |
| Other decades | 180 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Andhra Pradesh | 14,367 |
| Karnataka | 7,173 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 5,876 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 5,365 |
| Bihar | 2,652 |
| Rajasthan | 1,406 |
| Jharkhand | 1,119 |
| Goa | 351 |
| Assam | 218 |
| Tripura | 185 |
| Maharashtra | 169 |
| Uttarakhand | 168 |
| Haryana | 127 |
| Other states | 197 |
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, annapūrṇā, p. 45,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.