MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Padma mean?
Padmā is a feminine lotus-related name and an epithet of Lakshmi, while padma is the broader Sanskrit lotus noun. Padmavati adds a feminine possessive ending to the lotus base. Lakshmi is commonly portrayed seated or standing on a lotus, making the floral title concrete.
Pronunciation
IAST: padamā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पद्मा
Letter-by-letter: padamā
Conventional spelling
Tamil
பத்மா
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
पदमा
Letter-by-letter: padamā
36,231 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Padma in Indian usage
136,217 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (94.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 128,940 records (94.7%).
- Recorded as male: 7,277 records (5.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,685 |
| 1940s | 4,741 |
| 1950s | 8,864 |
| 1960s | 20,388 |
| 1970s | 38,359 |
| 1980s | 41,974 |
| 1990s | 19,839 |
| Other decades | 367 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Andhra Pradesh | 79,061 |
| Rajasthan | 12,695 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 8,682 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 8,121 |
| Jharkhand | 3,916 |
| Kerala | 3,274 |
| Uttarakhand | 3,192 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 2,602 |
| Jammu and Kashmir | 2,536 |
| Bihar | 2,316 |
| Karnataka | 2,166 |
| Delhi | 1,409 |
| Haryana | 1,134 |
| Assam | 1,128 |
| Odisha | 1,018 |
| Punjab | 522 |
| Puducherry | 496 |
| Tripura | 472 |
| Maharashtra | 312 |
| Sikkim | 279 |
| Goa | 203 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 193 |
| Meghalaya | 128 |
| Other states | 362 |
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, padmā, p. 584,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: Padma ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Wiktionary: पद्म ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.