MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Chuna mean?
Chuna is a form of the Hindi verb chunna, “to choose”, and can carry the sense “chosen”. With a longer first vowel, chuna also names lime, a material used in coating walls and preparing betel.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
चुना
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Chuna in Indian usage
3,253 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 782 records (24%).
- Recorded as male: 2,471 records (76%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 363 |
| 1950s | 598 |
| 1960s | 665 |
| 1970s | 589 |
| 1980s | 460 |
| 1990s | 358 |
| Other decades | 220 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 2,079 |
| Bihar | 475 |
| Jharkhand | 316 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 114 |
| Other states | 269 |
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