MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Prasanna mean?
Sanskrit prasanna can describe clear water or a bright, cloudless sky. Applied to a person or deity, it carries the senses pleased, gracious or favourably disposed.
Pronunciation
IAST: prasanna
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
प्रसन्न
Letter-by-letter: prasanna
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Prasanna in Indian usage
44,861 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (83.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 37,540 records (83.7%).
- Recorded as male: 7,321 records (16.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 4,500 |
| 1960s | 10,921 |
| 1970s | 10,043 |
| 1980s | 9,241 |
| 1990s | 9,674 |
| Other decades | 482 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 24,914 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 18,210 |
| Karnataka | 502 |
| Puducherry | 392 |
| Odisha | 389 |
| Delhi | 191 |
| Other states | 263 |
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, prasanna, p. 696,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.