MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Hanoman mean?
Hanoman is a vernacular form of Hanuman. In the Ramayana, Hanuman crosses the sea to find Sita and serves as a devoted ally of Rama. The name is connected with hanu, jaw, in Sanskrit.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
हनोमान
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Hanoman in Indian usage
5,465 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling हनोमान.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 697 |
| 1950s | 1,146 |
| 1960s | 1,578 |
| 1970s | 959 |
| 1980s | 710 |
| 1990s | 194 |
| Other decades | 181 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 5,465 |
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, hanumat, p. 1288,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.