MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sudama mean?
Sudama is Krishna's companion in devotional narrative. His visit to Krishna is remembered in the story of an offering of flattened rice.
Pronunciation
IAST: sudāmā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सुदामा
Letter-by-letter: sudāmā
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
सूदामा
Letter-by-letter: sūdāmā
668 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sudama in Indian usage
172,125 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: 99,907 records (58%).
- Recorded as male: 72,218 records (42%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 1,670 |
| 1930s | 6,703 |
| 1940s | 15,938 |
| 1950s | 28,274 |
| 1960s | 44,655 |
| 1970s | 37,971 |
| 1980s | 24,514 |
| 1990s | 12,249 |
| Other decades | 151 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 69,305 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 64,032 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 19,635 |
| Jharkhand | 12,498 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,753 |
| Delhi | 1,338 |
| Rajasthan | 1,114 |
| Haryana | 1,010 |
| Odisha | 500 |
| Punjab | 268 |
| Assam | 230 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 142 |
| Chandigarh | 118 |
| Other states | 182 |
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