MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bhavana mean?
Bhāvanā describes bringing a mental state into being or cultivating it, with modern Hindi emphasizing feeling or sentiment. Bhavana should be distinguished from Bhavani, the goddess name.
Pronunciation
IAST: bhāvanā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
भावना
Letter-by-letter: bhāvanā
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਭਾਵਨਾ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bhavana in Indian usage
119,732 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: 118,608 records (99.1%).
- Recorded as male: 1,124 records (0.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 734 |
| 1960s | 3,649 |
| 1970s | 16,270 |
| 1980s | 43,866 |
| 1990s | 54,978 |
| Other decades | 235 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 29,255 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 28,114 |
| Rajasthan | 26,549 |
| Uttarakhand | 12,946 |
| Haryana | 7,672 |
| Bihar | 3,520 |
| Punjab | 3,478 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 2,857 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 1,668 |
| Jharkhand | 826 |
| Kerala | 814 |
| Chandigarh | 442 |
| Delhi | 408 |
| Maharashtra | 385 |
| Goa | 373 |
| Other states | 425 |
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
- Behind the Name: Bhavana ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Wiktionary: भावना ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.