MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Atama mean?
Atama is the Punjabi vernacular form of atma, the soul or self. It belongs to the philosophical vocabulary that distinguishes the inner self from the physical body.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Gurmukhi
ਆਤਮਾ
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
आतमा
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Atama in Indian usage
6,567 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (96.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 245 records (3.7%).
- Recorded as male: 6,322 records (96.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 528 |
| 1940s | 1,067 |
| 1950s | 1,216 |
| 1960s | 1,559 |
| 1970s | 1,094 |
| 1980s | 746 |
| 1990s | 230 |
| Other decades | 127 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Punjab | 6,355 |
| Other states | 212 |
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, ātman, p. 135,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.