MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bhushan mean?
Bhushan is the Sanskrit noun for an ornament or embellishment. It also occurs among Vishnu's names, connecting the adornment image with the preserving deity.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
भूषण
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
भुषण
Letter-by-letter: bhuṣaṇa
8,195 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bhushan in Indian usage
11,091 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (97.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 313 records (2.8%).
- Recorded as male: 10,778 records (97.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 725 |
| 1960s | 1,806 |
| 1970s | 2,868 |
| 1980s | 3,668 |
| 1990s | 1,706 |
| Other decades | 318 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 7,575 |
| Jharkhand | 1,119 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 496 |
| Delhi | 390 |
| Maharashtra | 315 |
| Assam | 172 |
| Goa | 164 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 154 |
| Gujarat | 141 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 132 |
| Haryana | 129 |
| Tripura | 102 |
| Other states | 202 |
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, bhūṣaṇa, p. 764,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.