MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Purushottam mean?
Puruṣa and uttama together express the highest or best among persons. Purushottam is especially established as a title of Vishnu and Krishna.
Pronunciation
IAST: puruṣottama
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पुरुषोत्तम
Letter-by-letter: puruṣottama
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
पुरूषोत्तम
Letter-by-letter: purūṣottama
29,441 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Purushottam in Indian usage
51,106 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 488 records (1%).
- Recorded as male: 50,618 records (99%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 900 |
| 1940s | 2,573 |
| 1950s | 5,530 |
| 1960s | 8,924 |
| 1970s | 11,049 |
| 1980s | 12,966 |
| 1990s | 8,985 |
| Other decades | 179 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 16,758 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 16,385 |
| Rajasthan | 6,829 |
| Bihar | 4,825 |
| Jharkhand | 1,733 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,380 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 1,051 |
| Maharashtra | 934 |
| Haryana | 558 |
| Goa | 339 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 172 |
| Other states | 142 |
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, puruṣottama, p. 637,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.