MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Karun mean?
Karuṇa is the Sanskrit adjective for compassion and tenderness towards suffering. It also gives Indian literary theory the karuṇa rasa, the emotional mood of pathos.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
करुण
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
करूण
Letter-by-letter: karūṇa
1,759 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Karun in Indian usage
2,573 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (82.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 448 records (17.4%).
- Recorded as male: 2,125 records (82.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 264 |
| 1970s | 409 |
| 1980s | 842 |
| 1990s | 896 |
| Other decades | 162 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 429 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 358 |
| Jharkhand | 297 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 294 |
| Punjab | 279 |
| Kerala | 240 |
| Haryana | 176 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 146 |
| Other states | 354 |
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, karuṇa, p. 255,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.