MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Soman mean?
Soman is a Malayalam personal-name form of Soma. Sanskrit Soma is a name of the moon. It also denotes the sacred plant and drink of Vedic ritual.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सोमन
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
സോമൻ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Soman in Indian usage
18,412 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 194 records (1.1%).
- Recorded as male: 18,218 records (98.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,578 |
| 1950s | 7,214 |
| 1960s | 6,735 |
| 1970s | 2,100 |
| 1980s | 464 |
| Other decades | 321 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 18,069 |
| Delhi | 240 |
| Other states | 103 |
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
- Wiktionary: സോമൻ ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: सोम ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
- Monier-Williams, soma, p. 1249,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.