MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Arpana mean?
Arpana belongs to the Sanskrit verb family for handing over or dedicating. The name draws on the act of making an offering, a word used in both devotional and ordinary contexts.
Pronunciation
IAST: arpaṇā
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
अर्पणा
Letter-by-letter: arpaṇā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Arpana in Indian usage
12,849 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling अर्पणा.
Mostly recorded for girls (98.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 12,671 records (98.6%).
- Recorded as male: 178 records (1.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 602 |
| 1970s | 2,394 |
| 1980s | 5,691 |
| 1990s | 4,162 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 4,627 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,121 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,555 |
| Jharkhand | 1,577 |
| Rajasthan | 507 |
| Uttarakhand | 191 |
| Other states | 271 |
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, arpaṇa, p. 92,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.