MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Pushpa mean?
Puṣpa is the Sanskrit noun for a flower or blossom. Flowers are used in worship as offerings and in garlands.
Pronunciation
IAST: puṣpa
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पुष्पा
Letter-by-letter: puṣpa
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
पुष्प
Letter-by-letter: puṣpa
11,412 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Pushpa in Indian usage
815,499 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 811,204 records (99.5%).
- Recorded as male: 4,295 records (0.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 1,129 |
| 1930s | 5,375 |
| 1940s | 20,706 |
| 1950s | 57,633 |
| 1960s | 142,716 |
| 1970s | 207,190 |
| 1980s | 236,538 |
| 1990s | 144,083 |
| Other decades | 129 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 326,687 |
| Rajasthan | 123,149 |
| Bihar | 103,690 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 73,243 |
| Uttarakhand | 41,950 |
| Jharkhand | 37,803 |
| Haryana | 36,916 |
| Delhi | 29,220 |
| Kerala | 21,250 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 12,911 |
| Chandigarh | 1,518 |
| Maharashtra | 1,504 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,194 |
| Goa | 1,072 |
| Puducherry | 995 |
| Assam | 798 |
| Sikkim | 427 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 397 |
| Meghalaya | 200 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 135 |
| Manipur | 117 |
| Other states | 323 |
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, puṣpa, p. 639,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: पुष्प ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.