MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sneha mean?
Sneha draws on Sanskrit sneha, tenderness or affectionate attachment. The older word also denotes oiliness or smoothness, a concrete sense that sits alongside its emotional meaning in Sanskrit.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
स्नेहा
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
സ്നേഹ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sneha in Indian usage
31,795 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (98.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 31,313 records (98.5%).
- Recorded as male: 482 records (1.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 170 |
| 1960s | 679 |
| 1970s | 1,839 |
| 1980s | 9,420 |
| 1990s | 19,558 |
| Other decades | 129 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 8,466 |
| Kerala | 7,058 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 4,875 |
| Goa | 2,254 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 1,638 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,582 |
| Karnataka | 1,530 |
| Delhi | 1,406 |
| Odisha | 665 |
| Jharkhand | 629 |
| Haryana | 587 |
| Uttarakhand | 346 |
| Mizoram | 162 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 133 |
| Other states | 464 |
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.
Recorded abroad
Official births registered in 2025, for the exact spelling shown.
| Jurisdiction | Spelling / recorded sex | Births | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England & Wales | Sneha / F | 3 | 5,927 |
ONS and National Records of Scotland; Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3. Counts follow each office’s publication rules.
Explore related lists
Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- England & Wales 2025 birth statistics: Exact spelling Sneha; Table_6, C7418 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Exact spelling Sneha; Table_6, C7418
- Monier-Williams, sneha, p. 1267,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: സ്നേഹ ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Wiktionary: स्नेह ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.