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Sneh

Affection; tenderness

Sneh means “Affection; tenderness”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Hindi
First letter
S
Historical records
23,605

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Sneh mean?

Sanskrit sneha denotes love, attachment and tenderness. The same noun also means oiliness, linking emotional warmth with an older material sense.

Pronunciation

IAST: sneha

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

स्नेह

Letter-by-letter: sneha

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Sneh in Indian usage

23,605 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for girls (94.4%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 22,279 records (94.4%).
  • Recorded as male: 1,326 records (5.6%).

By birth decade

Sneh: records by birth decade1940s: 1,0161940s1950s: 2,3431950s1960s: 4,2421960s1970s: 5,4961970s1980s: 6,4681980s1990s: 3,8201990sOther decades: 220Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1940s1,016
1950s2,343
1960s4,242
1970s5,496
1980s6,468
1990s3,820
Other decades220

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Uttar Pradesh9,433
Haryana5,074
Himachal Pradesh2,757
Delhi2,183
Bihar1,962
Madhya Pradesh594
Jharkhand576
Uttarakhand565
Chandigarh346
Other states115
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, sneha, p. 1267,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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