MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sava mean?
Sava is the north Indian quantity word for one and a quarter. In older personal naming, such number words could become names without being a statement of a child's qualities.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सवा
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sava in Indian usage
8,505 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 3,312 records (38.9%).
- Recorded as male: 5,193 records (61.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 383 |
| 1940s | 943 |
| 1950s | 1,211 |
| 1960s | 1,409 |
| 1970s | 1,134 |
| 1980s | 1,813 |
| 1990s | 1,500 |
| Other decades | 112 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 4,770 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,039 |
| Bihar | 827 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 519 |
| Jharkhand | 149 |
| Other states | 201 |
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