MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Pushpam mean?
Pushpam preserves the Sanskrit flower word pushpa in a form familiar in Malayalam naming. Flowers also serve as offerings in worship, giving the name a cultural link with garlands and floral devotion.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पुष्पम
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
പുഷ്പം
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Pushpam in Indian usage
3,425 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (90%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 3,084 records (90%).
- Recorded as male: 341 records (10%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 467 |
| 1960s | 807 |
| 1970s | 660 |
| 1980s | 550 |
| 1990s | 746 |
| Other decades | 195 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 1,890 |
| Bihar | 1,189 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 101 |
| Other states | 245 |
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)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.