MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Padam mean?
Padam is a familiar north Indian form of Sanskrit padma, the lotus. The lotus word also names a lotus-shaped arrangement, including the traditional seated posture padmāsana.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पदम
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Padam in Indian usage
35,054 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (90.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 3,265 records (9.3%).
- Recorded as male: 31,789 records (90.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 868 |
| 1940s | 2,545 |
| 1950s | 4,383 |
| 1960s | 6,895 |
| 1970s | 8,197 |
| 1980s | 7,742 |
| 1990s | 4,232 |
| Other decades | 192 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 9,638 |
| Rajasthan | 7,396 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 5,459 |
| Uttarakhand | 2,913 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 2,659 |
| Haryana | 2,243 |
| Delhi | 1,532 |
| Sikkim | 761 |
| Punjab | 567 |
| Jharkhand | 377 |
| Assam | 266 |
| Bihar | 255 |
| Maharashtra | 207 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 194 |
| Manipur | 184 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 123 |
| Other states | 280 |
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, padma, p. 584,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.