MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Josana mean?
Moonlight is the sense of Sanskrit jyotsnā, a recurring image in poetry about the night. The vernacular feminine name Josana continues that moonlight word in eastern Hindi-speaking areas.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
जोसना
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Josana in Indian usage
4,363 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling जोसना.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 420 |
| 1970s | 798 |
| 1980s | 1,404 |
| 1990s | 1,630 |
| Other decades | 111 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Jharkhand | 2,761 |
| Bihar | 813 |
| Other states | 789 |
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, jyotsnā, p. 427,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.