MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Prema mean?
The Sanskrit love noun preman gives Prema its affectionate sense. Sanskrit preman is a noun of affection formed from the root prī, to please.
Pronunciation
IAST: premā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
प्रेमा
Letter-by-letter: premā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Prema in Indian usage
204,476 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: 193,541 records (94.7%).
- Recorded as male: 10,935 records (5.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 3,602 |
| 1940s | 12,657 |
| 1950s | 28,959 |
| 1960s | 60,128 |
| 1970s | 47,851 |
| 1980s | 34,663 |
| 1990s | 16,020 |
| Other decades | 596 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 102,939 |
| Odisha | 16,532 |
| Kerala | 14,405 |
| Uttarakhand | 11,727 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 11,212 |
| Karnataka | 10,314 |
| Bihar | 9,829 |
| Rajasthan | 7,596 |
| Delhi | 4,695 |
| Jharkhand | 4,529 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 3,418 |
| Haryana | 1,996 |
| Puducherry | 1,334 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,019 |
| Goa | 909 |
| Punjab | 795 |
| Maharashtra | 282 |
| Assam | 262 |
| Chandigarh | 254 |
| Mizoram | 112 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 101 |
| Other states | 216 |
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, prema, p. 711,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: प्रेमा ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.