MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Saumya mean?
Saumya is the feminine form of Sanskrit saumya, gentle or placid like the moon. Saumya also names Durga, giving the name a goddess association alongside its calm imagery.
Pronunciation
IAST: saumyā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सौम्या
Letter-by-letter: saumyā
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
സൗമ്യ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Saumya in Indian usage
5,537 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1980s | 4,094 |
| 1990s | 1,202 |
| Other decades | 241 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 4,108 |
| Karnataka | 916 |
| Other states | 513 |
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, saumya, p. 1254,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, saumyā, p. 1254,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.