MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Hima mean?
Hima belongs to the Sanskrit hima vocabulary of cold, frost and snow. The feminine Hima also names Durga, linking the seasonal image to the goddess.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
हिमा
Conventional spelling
Telugu
హిమ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Hima in Indian usage
11,208 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (92.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 10,398 records (92.8%).
- Recorded as male: 810 records (7.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 344 |
| 1950s | 649 |
| 1960s | 960 |
| 1970s | 1,485 |
| 1980s | 3,671 |
| 1990s | 3,950 |
| Other decades | 149 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Andhra Pradesh | 3,150 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 3,022 |
| Kerala | 2,716 |
| Uttarakhand | 443 |
| Assam | 361 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 326 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 240 |
| Rajasthan | 222 |
| Meghalaya | 155 |
| Bihar | 117 |
| Other states | 456 |
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, hima, p. 1298,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, himā, p. 1298,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.