MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Somnath mean?
Somnath is Shiva’s title as lord of Soma, the moon. The name belongs to the celebrated Shiva linga and pilgrimage shrine in Gujarat. The shrine is traditionally counted among the twelve great Jyotirlinga sites.
Pronunciation
IAST: somanātha
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सोमनाथ
Letter-by-letter: somanātha
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Somnath in Indian usage
21,644 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling सोमनाथ.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 285 records (1.3%).
- Recorded as male: 21,359 records (98.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 1,737 |
| 1960s | 2,943 |
| 1970s | 4,066 |
| 1980s | 6,348 |
| 1990s | 5,795 |
| Other decades | 755 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 7,713 |
| Jharkhand | 4,628 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 3,089 |
| Haryana | 2,741 |
| Bihar | 2,261 |
| Maharashtra | 669 |
| Other states | 543 |
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, somanātha, p. 1250,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, soma, p. 1249,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, nātha, p. 534,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.