MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sona mean?
Sona is the everyday Hindi word for gold, continued from older Indo Aryan vocabulary. In personal naming the precious metal supplies a value and affection image.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सोना
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sona in Indian usage
11,289 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: 7,370 records (65.3%).
- Recorded as male: 3,919 records (34.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 459 |
| 1950s | 445 |
| 1960s | 573 |
| 1970s | 1,896 |
| 1980s | 4,581 |
| 1990s | 3,129 |
| Other decades | 206 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Delhi | 7,542 |
| Kerala | 2,798 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 260 |
| Mizoram | 143 |
| Meghalaya | 121 |
| Sikkim | 102 |
| Other states | 323 |
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: सोना ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
- Behind the Name: Sona ↗ (opens in a new tab)
origin
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.