MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Hema mean?
Gold is the sense of Sanskrit heman and the related personal name Hema. Sanskrit heman is the gold noun underlying the personal name.
Pronunciation
IAST: hemā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
हेमा
Letter-by-letter: hemā
Conventional spelling
Odia
ହେମ
Conventional spelling
Kannada
ಹೇಮಾ
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਹੇਮਾ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Hema in Indian usage
147,521 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (93%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 137,154 records (93%).
- Recorded as male: 10,367 records (7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 2,133 |
| 1940s | 4,985 |
| 1950s | 8,569 |
| 1960s | 22,665 |
| 1970s | 28,614 |
| 1980s | 45,030 |
| 1990s | 35,065 |
| Other decades | 460 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 25,054 |
| Uttarakhand | 23,933 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 18,910 |
| Rajasthan | 18,046 |
| Bihar | 14,429 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 12,008 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 10,596 |
| Delhi | 6,524 |
| Jharkhand | 3,847 |
| Haryana | 2,719 |
| Karnataka | 2,685 |
| Kerala | 2,292 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,692 |
| Punjab | 1,505 |
| Assam | 817 |
| Goa | 521 |
| Chandigarh | 291 |
| Puducherry | 287 |
| Tripura | 274 |
| Meghalaya | 250 |
| Maharashtra | 218 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 183 |
| Sikkim | 173 |
| Other states | 267 |
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)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.