MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Hansa mean?
Haṃsa names the swan or a similar waterbird in Sanskrit poetry. The bird is also used as an image of the soul in philosophical literature.
Pronunciation
IAST: haṃsā
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
हंसा
Letter-by-letter: haṃsā
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
हन्सा
Letter-by-letter: hansā
1,015 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Hansa in Indian usage
36,979 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (88.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 32,683 records (88.4%).
- Recorded as male: 4,296 records (11.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 566 |
| 1940s | 1,474 |
| 1950s | 2,771 |
| 1960s | 4,912 |
| 1970s | 6,196 |
| 1980s | 10,773 |
| 1990s | 10,148 |
| Other decades | 139 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 21,252 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 4,981 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 3,828 |
| Uttarakhand | 2,267 |
| Bihar | 1,527 |
| Haryana | 908 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 734 |
| Delhi | 663 |
| Kerala | 214 |
| Jharkhand | 178 |
| Maharashtra | 107 |
| Odisha | 103 |
| Other states | 217 |
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, haṃsa, p. 1286,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.