MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Banabasi mean?
Banabasi is the Odia form of Sanskrit vanavāsin, a forest-dweller. It joins bana, forest, with a word for dwelling and can evoke life away from towns.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Odia
ବନବାସୀ
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
बनबासी
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Banabasi in Indian usage
2,716 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (88%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 2,391 records (88%).
- Recorded as male: 325 records (12%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 199 |
| 1950s | 403 |
| 1960s | 570 |
| 1970s | 636 |
| 1980s | 543 |
| 1990s | 251 |
| Other decades | 114 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 2,532 |
| Other states | 184 |
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, vanavāsin, p. 918,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.