MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kshama mean?
Kshama names patience and forbearance in Sanskrit ethical vocabulary. The same noun can denote the earth. Puranic literature also personifies Kshama as a daughter of Daksha and wife of Pulaha.
Pronunciation
IAST: kṣamā
Meaning themes
forgivenesspatience
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
क्षमा
Letter-by-letter: kṣamā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kshama in Indian usage
19,378 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (96.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 18,657 records (96.3%).
- Recorded as male: 721 records (3.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 533 |
| 1960s | 1,430 |
| 1970s | 3,443 |
| 1980s | 7,021 |
| 1990s | 6,622 |
| Other decades | 329 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 8,944 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 7,577 |
| Rajasthan | 775 |
| Odisha | 571 |
| Bihar | 438 |
| Haryana | 269 |
| Jharkhand | 225 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 190 |
| Uttarakhand | 160 |
| Tripura | 119 |
| Other states | 110 |
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, kṣamā, p. 326,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.