MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sua mean?
Sua names the parrot in Hindi and neighbouring speech varieties. The bird appears in folk songs as a messenger, giving this short feminine name a familiar literary image.
Meaning themes
bird
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सुआ
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
सूआ
Letter-by-letter: sūā
792 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sua in Indian usage
16,000 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (90.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 14,464 records (90.4%).
- Recorded as male: 1,536 records (9.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 857 |
| 1940s | 1,718 |
| 1950s | 2,365 |
| 1960s | 3,039 |
| 1970s | 2,540 |
| 1980s | 3,164 |
| 1990s | 2,072 |
| Other decades | 245 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 13,585 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,212 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,000 |
| Other states | 203 |
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