MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kusum mean?
Kusuma is a general Sanskrit noun for a flower or blossom. Kusumalata joins it to latā, creeper, producing a flowering-vine image.
Pronunciation
IAST: kusuma
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कुसुम
Letter-by-letter: kusuma
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kusum in Indian usage
403,409 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (98.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 398,311 records (98.7%).
- Recorded as male: 5,098 records (1.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 3,235 |
| 1940s | 12,221 |
| 1950s | 33,278 |
| 1960s | 79,142 |
| 1970s | 101,381 |
| 1980s | 110,613 |
| 1990s | 62,845 |
| Other decades | 694 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 203,992 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 70,722 |
| Bihar | 57,593 |
| Haryana | 19,075 |
| Rajasthan | 17,773 |
| Uttarakhand | 13,401 |
| Jharkhand | 12,793 |
| Assam | 2,618 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,581 |
| Chandigarh | 864 |
| Tripura | 819 |
| Maharashtra | 594 |
| Goa | 392 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 178 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 156 |
| Sikkim | 145 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 120 |
| Delhi | 109 |
| Other states | 484 |
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)
- Wiktionary: कुसुम ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.