MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Chuman mean?
Chuman is a northern vernacular form related to cumbana, the noun for a kiss. The word occurs in the Gita Govinda’s love poetry, giving the name’s affectionate image a specific literary setting.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
चुमन
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Chuman in Indian usage
2,372 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (83.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 394 records (16.6%).
- Recorded as male: 1,978 records (83.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 136 |
| 1960s | 298 |
| 1970s | 584 |
| 1980s | 627 |
| 1990s | 618 |
| Other decades | 109 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 1,793 |
| Assam | 312 |
| Jharkhand | 104 |
| Other states | 163 |
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, cumb, p. 400,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, cumbana, p. 400,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, cumba, p. 400,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.