MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Padum mean?
Padum continues paduma, the vernacular descendant of Sanskrit padma, lotus. Indian art often depicts deities on a lotus seat, and the flower is also used as an image of beauty in poetry.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पदुम
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Padum in Indian usage
2,416 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 635 records (26.3%).
- Recorded as male: 1,781 records (73.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 334 |
| 1960s | 522 |
| 1970s | 572 |
| 1980s | 452 |
| 1990s | 291 |
| Other decades | 245 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Jharkhand | 793 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 682 |
| Assam | 670 |
| Other states | 271 |
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.