MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Jnana mean?
Sanskrit jñāna denotes knowledge and understanding, including spiritual knowledge. Jnana gives this abstract noun a feminine personal-name form.
Pronunciation
IAST: jñānā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
ज्ञाना
Letter-by-letter: jñānā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Jnana in Indian usage
5,872 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (88.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 5,186 records (88.3%).
- Recorded as male: 686 records (11.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 602 |
| 1950s | 901 |
| 1960s | 1,343 |
| 1970s | 1,180 |
| 1980s | 985 |
| 1990s | 571 |
| Other decades | 290 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 2,140 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,751 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,642 |
| Haryana | 147 |
| Other states | 192 |
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, jñāna, p. 426,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.