MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Mauna mean?
Mauna uses the Sanskrit noun mauna, silence. In contemplative practice the word denotes deliberate abstention from speech.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Gurmukhi
ਮੌਨਾ
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
मौना
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Mauna in Indian usage
3,090 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (93.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 2,897 records (93.8%).
- Recorded as male: 193 records (6.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 127 |
| 1960s | 258 |
| 1970s | 642 |
| 1980s | 1,123 |
| 1990s | 835 |
| Other decades | 105 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Punjab | 1,402 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 566 |
| Rajasthan | 352 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 343 |
| Bihar | 180 |
| Odisha | 129 |
| Other states | 118 |
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, mauna, p. 837,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.