MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Brahami mean?
Brahami is a vernacular form of Brahmi, the feminine power of Brahma. Brahmi is counted among the divine mothers. Sanskrit also uses the name for Saraswati, the goddess of speech and learning.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
ब्रहमी
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Brahami in Indian usage
2,957 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (95%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 2,808 records (95%).
- Recorded as male: 149 records (5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 107 |
| 1930s | 449 |
| 1940s | 809 |
| 1950s | 858 |
| 1960s | 451 |
| 1970s | 182 |
| Other decades | 101 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,833 |
| Haryana | 485 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 267 |
| Punjab | 138 |
| Bihar | 118 |
| Other states | 116 |
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, brāhmī, p. 742,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.