MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Aruna mean?
Aruṇā is the feminine lexical form of aruṇa, reddish, while the historical usage share is kept separate from Sanskrit grammatical gender. Arun is the related masculine dawn-colour name.
Pronunciation
IAST: aruṇā
Meaning themes
dawncolour
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
अरुणा
Letter-by-letter: aruṇā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Aruna in Indian usage
187,793 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 137,676 records (73.3%).
- Recorded as male: 50,117 records (26.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 408 |
| 1940s | 2,556 |
| 1950s | 9,143 |
| 1960s | 23,465 |
| 1970s | 39,295 |
| 1980s | 66,508 |
| 1990s | 46,204 |
| Other decades | 214 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 49,452 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 46,683 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 19,396 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 17,750 |
| Bihar | 16,392 |
| Rajasthan | 8,597 |
| Karnataka | 8,033 |
| Jharkhand | 4,523 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 3,303 |
| Haryana | 2,636 |
| Kerala | 2,193 |
| Punjab | 1,989 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,956 |
| Tripura | 1,174 |
| Maharashtra | 818 |
| Puducherry | 640 |
| Goa | 405 |
| Assam | 343 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 339 |
| Chandigarh | 266 |
| Meghalaya | 185 |
| Sikkim | 174 |
| Manipur | 157 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 100 |
| Other states | 289 |
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, aruṇa, p. 88,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: अरुण ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Behind the Name: Aruna ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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