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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Damini

Lightning

Damini means “Lightning”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Hindi
First letter
D
Historical records
5,220

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Damini mean?

In Hindi poetry, Damini is a word for lightning. The name carries the image of sudden illumination familiar from descriptions of monsoon storms.

Pronunciation

IAST: dāminī

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

दामिनी

Letter-by-letter: dāminī

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Damini in Indian usage

5,220 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Damini: records by birth decade1960s: 1431960s1970s: 3471970s1980s: 8291980s1990s: 3,7451990sOther decades: 156Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1960s143
1970s347
1980s829
1990s3,745
Other decades156

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Uttar Pradesh1,843
Madhya Pradesh1,003
Bihar568
Rajasthan477
Jharkhand318
Odisha234
Punjab210
Haryana171
Uttarakhand154
Other states242
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Wiktionary: दामिनी ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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