MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sudha mean?
Sudhā is a nectar word used in poetry and in compounds describing moonlight as sweet or life-giving. Sudhakar joins the nectar word with kara to name the moon.
Pronunciation
IAST: sudhā
Meaning themes
nectarmoon
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सुधा
Letter-by-letter: sudhā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sudha in Indian usage
377,944 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (93.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 353,080 records (93.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 2,274 |
| 1940s | 8,581 |
| 1950s | 25,516 |
| 1960s | 65,239 |
| 1970s | 97,351 |
| 1980s | 107,650 |
| 1990s | 70,761 |
| Other decades | 572 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 138,789 |
| Bihar | 69,573 |
| Gujarat | 39,394 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 36,965 |
| Kerala | 25,094 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 13,075 |
| Jharkhand | 11,063 |
| Rajasthan | 8,219 |
| Delhi | 7,988 |
| Karnataka | 6,499 |
| Haryana | 6,272 |
| Uttarakhand | 5,620 |
| Punjab | 2,172 |
| Puducherry | 1,661 |
| Odisha | 1,389 |
| Maharashtra | 1,248 |
| Goa | 977 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 576 |
| Chandigarh | 423 |
| Assam | 324 |
| Tripura | 211 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 110 |
| Sikkim | 109 |
| Other states | 193 |
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, sudhā, p. 1225,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: सुधा ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.