MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Punna mean?
Punna can represent Purna, full or complete, through a regional simplification of the consonants. A second vernacular word punna conveys merit, from Sanskrit punya.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पुन्ना
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Punna in Indian usage
4,054 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 1,015 records (25%).
- Recorded as male: 3,039 records (75%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 309 |
| 1940s | 646 |
| 1950s | 753 |
| 1960s | 889 |
| 1970s | 727 |
| 1980s | 469 |
| Other decades | 261 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,974 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 983 |
| Rajasthan | 257 |
| Bihar | 219 |
| Uttarakhand | 197 |
| Maharashtra | 137 |
| Haryana | 115 |
| Other states | 172 |
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, pūrṇa, p. 642,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, puṇya, p. 632,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.