MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Prerna mean?
Prerna continues the Sanskrit noun prerana, setting something in motion or urging it onward. Modern Hindi uses the word for the impulse that inspires an action or idea.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
प्रेरणा
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Prerna in Indian usage
11,145 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling प्रेरणा.
Mostly recorded for girls (98.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 10,984 records (98.6%).
- Recorded as male: 161 records (1.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 169 |
| 1970s | 1,046 |
| 1980s | 4,322 |
| 1990s | 5,608 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,345 |
| Rajasthan | 2,093 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,071 |
| Haryana | 1,065 |
| Bihar | 1,057 |
| Jharkhand | 777 |
| Other states | 737 |
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, preraṇa, p. 712,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: प्रेरणा ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
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