MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kusuma mean?
Kusuma comes from the Sanskrit noun for a flower or blossom. The feminine personal name is especially familiar in southern Indian languages.
Pronunciation
IAST: kusumā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कुसुमा
Letter-by-letter: kusumā
Conventional spelling
Telugu
కుసుమ
Conventional spelling
Kannada
ಕುಸುಮ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kusuma in Indian usage
12,467 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (98%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 12,219 records (98%).
- Recorded as male: 248 records (2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 794 |
| 1950s | 1,555 |
| 1960s | 2,106 |
| 1970s | 2,389 |
| 1980s | 2,773 |
| 1990s | 2,575 |
| Other decades | 275 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Andhra Pradesh | 6,683 |
| Odisha | 4,439 |
| Kerala | 837 |
| Other states | 508 |
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.