MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Rohini mean?
Rohini is associated with the reddish star Aldebaran. Sanskrit literature personifies Rohini as a wife of the Moon. A separate Puranic figure named Rohini is the mother of Balarama.
Pronunciation
IAST: rohiṇī
Meaning themes
starepic
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
रोहिणी
Letter-by-letter: rohiṇī
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
रोहिनी
Letter-by-letter: rohinī
3,516 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Rohini in Indian usage
17,167 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (97.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 16,721 records (97.4%).
- Recorded as male: 446 records (2.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,104 |
| 1950s | 2,204 |
| 1960s | 2,508 |
| 1970s | 2,477 |
| 1980s | 4,370 |
| 1990s | 4,122 |
| Other decades | 382 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 8,400 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 4,976 |
| Karnataka | 2,440 |
| Goa | 827 |
| Puducherry | 173 |
| Delhi | 158 |
| Other states | 193 |
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, rohiṇī, p. 890,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.