MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Soma mean?
Soma names the pressed ritual drink and its deity in Vedic literature. Later Sanskrit also uses Soma for the moon, while Somā can be a feminine name form.
Pronunciation
IAST: somā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सोमा
Letter-by-letter: somā
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਸੋਮਾ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Soma in Indian usage
93,774 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: 65,301 records (69.6%).
- Recorded as male: 28,473 records (30.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 2,066 |
| 1940s | 5,481 |
| 1950s | 10,396 |
| 1960s | 15,477 |
| 1970s | 19,966 |
| 1980s | 25,214 |
| 1990s | 14,674 |
| Other decades | 500 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Punjab | 16,710 |
| Jharkhand | 13,416 |
| Rajasthan | 11,765 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 9,356 |
| Tripura | 8,315 |
| Haryana | 5,540 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 5,131 |
| Bihar | 3,889 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,746 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 3,473 |
| Odisha | 3,217 |
| Assam | 2,701 |
| Delhi | 2,407 |
| Maharashtra | 1,561 |
| Uttarakhand | 881 |
| Kerala | 323 |
| Chandigarh | 225 |
| Meghalaya | 215 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 164 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 151 |
| Goa | 145 |
| Karnataka | 135 |
| Other states | 308 |
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, soma, p. 1249,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.