MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kusam mean?
Kusam is a vernacular form of Kusum, from Sanskrit kusuma, flower. The noun covers blossoms generally, giving the name a broad floral meaning without restricting it to a particular plant.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कुसुम
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
कुसम
Letter-by-letter: kusama
16,932 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kusam in Indian usage
26,934 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (98.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 26,524 records (98.5%).
- Recorded as male: 410 records (1.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 827 |
| 1950s | 2,727 |
| 1960s | 6,529 |
| 1970s | 7,283 |
| 1980s | 6,270 |
| 1990s | 3,100 |
| Other decades | 198 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Haryana | 6,744 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 6,543 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 4,843 |
| Punjab | 3,713 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 2,617 |
| Rajasthan | 1,023 |
| Bihar | 686 |
| Uttarakhand | 234 |
| Chandigarh | 195 |
| Jharkhand | 133 |
| Other states | 203 |
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, kusuma, p. 298,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.