MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Purani mean?
Purani is a feminine vernacular form of purana, old or ancient. The shorter local pronunciation is familiar in eastern Hindi naming and preserves the ordinary age-related word.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पुरनी
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Purani in Indian usage
8,113 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling पुरनी.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 822 |
| 1950s | 1,239 |
| 1960s | 2,068 |
| 1970s | 1,865 |
| 1980s | 1,206 |
| 1990s | 529 |
| Other decades | 384 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Jharkhand | 4,276 |
| Other states | 3,837 |
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, purāṇa, p. 635,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.