MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bhanamati mean?
Bhanamati is a vernacular form of Bhanumati, the feminine of bhānumat, luminous. Bhānu denotes light or the sun, giving the compound its solar image and its established Sanskrit literary setting.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
भानुमती
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
भानमती
Letter-by-letter: bhānamatī
28,752 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bhanamati in Indian usage
29,703 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 29,440 records (99.1%).
- Recorded as male: 263 records (0.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,343 |
| 1940s | 3,781 |
| 1950s | 6,116 |
| 1960s | 7,679 |
| 1970s | 5,660 |
| 1980s | 3,663 |
| 1990s | 1,197 |
| Other decades | 264 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 26,704 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,596 |
| Haryana | 768 |
| Bihar | 204 |
| Uttarakhand | 165 |
| Other states | 266 |
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, bhānumat, p. 751,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, bhānumatī, p. 751,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.