MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Paramatma mean?
Paramatma is the Sanskrit term for the Supreme Self. The compound joins parama, highest, with atman, self or spirit, and is central to Upanishadic thought.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
परमात्मा
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Paramatma in Indian usage
10,637 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (97.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 273 records (2.6%).
- Recorded as male: 10,364 records (97.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 778 |
| 1950s | 1,448 |
| 1960s | 2,268 |
| 1970s | 2,398 |
| 1980s | 2,341 |
| 1990s | 1,133 |
| Other decades | 271 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 7,471 |
| Bihar | 2,543 |
| Jharkhand | 168 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 149 |
| Rajasthan | 132 |
| Other states | 174 |
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, paramātman, p. 588,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.