MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shamma mean?
Shamma is a feminine vernacular form related to shama, a candle. Urdu poetry uses the candle and moth as images of devotion, longing and self-consuming love.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शम्मा
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shamma in Indian usage
5,938 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling शम्मा.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1970s | 706 |
| 1980s | 2,223 |
| 1990s | 2,831 |
| Other decades | 178 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 4,064 |
| Jharkhand | 1,401 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 264 |
| Other states | 209 |
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