MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Saman mean?
Persian saman denotes jasmine and is used as a floral personal name. Sanskrit samana has a separate sense of gathering or assembly, giving the same short name another linguistic source.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
समन
Conventional spelling
Arabic
سمن
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Saman in Indian usage
38,422 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (92.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 35,675 records (92.9%).
- Recorded as male: 2,747 records (7.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 425 |
| 1950s | 1,630 |
| 1960s | 5,089 |
| 1970s | 10,621 |
| 1980s | 13,951 |
| 1990s | 6,484 |
| Other decades | 222 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Punjab | 28,439 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 5,936 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,405 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 753 |
| Bihar | 658 |
| Jharkhand | 250 |
| Maharashtra | 192 |
| Delhi | 187 |
| Rajasthan | 180 |
| Haryana | 110 |
| Other states | 312 |
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, samana, p. 1154,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.