MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Purnima mean?
Pūrṇimā names the day or night when the moon is full. The word is connected with pūrṇa, full or complete, and appears throughout Indian lunar calendars.
Pronunciation
IAST: pūrṇimā
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पूर्णिमा
Letter-by-letter: pūrṇimā
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
पुर्णिमा
Letter-by-letter: purṇimā
10,252 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Purnima in Indian usage
4,473 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 313 |
| 1970s | 698 |
| 1980s | 1,842 |
| 1990s | 1,472 |
| Other decades | 148 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Andhra Pradesh | 2,193 |
| Meghalaya | 691 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 525 |
| Manipur | 240 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 238 |
| Nagaland | 167 |
| Sikkim | 160 |
| Other states | 259 |
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, pūrṇimā, p. 642,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.