MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Jyotsana mean?
Jyotsana is a vernacular form of Jyotsna, the Sanskrit noun for moonlight. The word also denotes a moonlit night in early Sanskrit literature.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
ज्योत्स्ना
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
ज्योत्सना
Letter-by-letter: jyotsanā
17,968 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Jyotsana in Indian usage
19,114 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (98.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 18,891 records (98.8%).
- Recorded as male: 223 records (1.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 314 |
| 1950s | 891 |
| 1960s | 2,070 |
| 1970s | 3,592 |
| 1980s | 6,538 |
| 1990s | 5,555 |
| Other decades | 154 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 4,896 |
| Jharkhand | 4,673 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 3,031 |
| Rajasthan | 2,398 |
| Bihar | 2,276 |
| Uttarakhand | 754 |
| Haryana | 631 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 208 |
| Other states | 247 |
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.