MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Hem mean?
Hema is a Sanskrit gold word, shortened to Hem in modern name use. It forms the first member of Hemlata and Hemraj, with the material image retained.
Pronunciation
IAST: hema
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
हेम
Letter-by-letter: hema
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਹੇਮ
Conventional spelling
Bengali
হেম
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Hem in Indian usage
62,361 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: 21,199 records (34%).
- Recorded as male: 41,162 records (66%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 815 |
| 1940s | 2,663 |
| 1950s | 5,468 |
| 1960s | 10,679 |
| 1970s | 15,678 |
| 1980s | 17,833 |
| 1990s | 9,009 |
| Other decades | 216 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Himachal Pradesh | 12,234 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 10,116 |
| Rajasthan | 7,464 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 6,272 |
| Delhi | 5,606 |
| Haryana | 5,570 |
| Punjab | 4,502 |
| Uttarakhand | 4,391 |
| Jharkhand | 1,900 |
| Bihar | 1,861 |
| Assam | 957 |
| Sikkim | 727 |
| Chandigarh | 302 |
| Other states | 459 |
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, heman, p. 1304,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: हेम ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
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