MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Mithun mean?
Mithuna is the Sanskrit pair or couple word. It can describe two beings or things joined together as a pair.
Pronunciation
IAST: mithuna
Meaning themes
kinship
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
मिथुन
Letter-by-letter: mithuna
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
मिठुन
Letter-by-letter: miṭhuna
2,509 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Mithun in Indian usage
71,852 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 771 records (1.1%).
- Recorded as male: 71,081 records (98.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 225 |
| 1950s | 124 |
| 1960s | 315 |
| 1970s | 1,109 |
| 1980s | 23,986 |
| 1990s | 45,971 |
| Other decades | 122 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 29,164 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 12,789 |
| Jharkhand | 8,890 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 6,948 |
| Kerala | 3,474 |
| Tripura | 3,108 |
| Assam | 2,142 |
| Rajasthan | 1,542 |
| Uttarakhand | 775 |
| Odisha | 532 |
| Haryana | 518 |
| Meghalaya | 446 |
| Punjab | 404 |
| Delhi | 378 |
| Goa | 139 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 129 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 116 |
| Other states | 358 |
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, mithuna, p. 816,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.