MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Manasa mean?
Manasa names the goddess who protects against snake venom and is the mother of Astika in Sanskrit narrative. The identical Sanskrit form manasa also means in thought or with the whole heart. Both the divine name and the expression belong to the word's cultural background.
Pronunciation
IAST: manasā
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
मनसा
Letter-by-letter: manasā
Conventional spelling
Bengali
মনসা
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
मंसा
Letter-by-letter: maṃsā
2,313 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Manasa in Indian usage
8,680 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling मनसा.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 4,794 records (55.2%).
- Recorded as male: 3,886 records (44.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 386 |
| 1950s | 771 |
| 1960s | 1,400 |
| 1970s | 1,959 |
| 1980s | 2,366 |
| 1990s | 1,689 |
| Other decades | 109 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Jharkhand | 3,085 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,315 |
| Bihar | 1,226 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,174 |
| Rajasthan | 747 |
| Other states | 133 |
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, manasā, p. 783,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.