MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Punavasi mean?
Puna or punav is a vernacular word for the full-moon day. Punavasi belongs to the calendar-based names formed around that occasion in north Indian speech.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पुनवासी
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Punavasi in Indian usage
5,157 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (84.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 782 records (15.2%).
- Recorded as male: 4,375 records (84.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 696 |
| 1950s | 884 |
| 1960s | 1,126 |
| 1970s | 932 |
| 1980s | 831 |
| 1990s | 379 |
| Other decades | 309 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 4,953 |
| Other states | 204 |
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