MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Subha mean?
The feminine auspiciousness adjective Śubhā appears regionally as Subha. Shubham is a related neuter form also used as an independent personal name.
Pronunciation
IAST: śubhā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शुभा
Letter-by-letter: śubhā
Conventional spelling
Arabic
صبح
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Subha in Indian usage
407,861 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (94.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 385,562 records (94.5%).
- Recorded as male: 22,299 records (5.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 931 |
| 1930s | 3,287 |
| 1940s | 9,651 |
| 1950s | 24,944 |
| 1960s | 62,212 |
| 1970s | 99,564 |
| 1980s | 125,482 |
| 1990s | 81,663 |
| Other decades | 127 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 179,289 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 85,938 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 38,900 |
| Jharkhand | 28,313 |
| Rajasthan | 26,112 |
| Odisha | 10,973 |
| Uttarakhand | 10,593 |
| Haryana | 6,767 |
| Kerala | 5,537 |
| Punjab | 3,778 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 2,488 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 2,290 |
| Tripura | 2,149 |
| Maharashtra | 2,093 |
| Assam | 1,475 |
| Chandigarh | 562 |
| Puducherry | 189 |
| Delhi | 129 |
| Other states | 286 |
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, śubha, p. 1083,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: صبح ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.