MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kumari mean?
Kumārī is the feminine counterpart of kumāra and can function as a name or an additional form of address. The long final ī distinguishes the feminine word from Kumar.
Pronunciation
IAST: kumārī
Meaning themes
youth
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कुमारी
Letter-by-letter: kumārī
Conventional spelling
Tamil
குமாரி
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
കുമാരി
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kumari in Indian usage
428,183 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 423,803 records (99%).
- Recorded as male: 4,380 records (1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 744 |
| 1930s | 2,089 |
| 1940s | 6,046 |
| 1950s | 17,354 |
| 1960s | 43,285 |
| 1970s | 83,054 |
| 1980s | 133,005 |
| 1990s | 142,490 |
| Other decades | 116 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 118,648 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 106,110 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 73,088 |
| Odisha | 67,236 |
| Jharkhand | 24,282 |
| Kerala | 16,128 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 6,414 |
| Rajasthan | 3,641 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 2,672 |
| Haryana | 2,161 |
| Maharashtra | 1,836 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,076 |
| Tripura | 882 |
| Punjab | 794 |
| Puducherry | 756 |
| Sikkim | 512 |
| Manipur | 417 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 281 |
| Meghalaya | 199 |
| Chandigarh | 168 |
| Karnataka | 165 |
| Delhi | 153 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 132 |
| Nagaland | 126 |
| Gujarat | 124 |
| Other states | 182 |
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, kumārī, p. 292,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: कुमारी ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Behind the Name: Kumari ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.