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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Gangamma

Mother Ganga

Gangamma means “Mother Ganga”.

Origin language
Kannada / Sanskrit
First letter
G
Historical records
8,433

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Gangamma mean?

Gangamma combines the river-goddess Ganga with Kannada amma, mother. Ganga is personified in epic literature as the mother of Bhishma, giving the maternal form a specific mythological background.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

गंगम्मा

Conventional spelling

Kannada

ಗಂಗಮ್ಮ

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Gangamma in Indian usage

8,433 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Gangamma: records by birth decade1940s: 6971940s1950s: 1,0391950s1960s: 1,3941960s1970s: 1,6081970s1980s: 2,0671980s1990s: 1,2251990sOther decades: 403Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1940s697
1950s1,039
1960s1,394
1970s1,608
1980s2,067
1990s1,225
Other decades403

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Other states8,433
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. Monier-Williams, gaṅgā, p. 341,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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