MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sulochana mean?
Sulocanā combines su, good or beautiful, with locana, an eye. In later Ramayana traditions, Sulochana is the wife of Indrajit, also called Meghanada. Her husband Indrajit is Ravana's son in the epic.
Pronunciation
IAST: sulocanā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सुलोचना
Letter-by-letter: sulocanā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sulochana in Indian usage
231,635 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 231,118 records (99.8%).
- Recorded as male: 517 records (0.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 2,932 |
| 1940s | 8,946 |
| 1950s | 22,236 |
| 1960s | 52,897 |
| 1970s | 84,405 |
| 1980s | 31,378 |
| 1990s | 28,222 |
| Other decades | 619 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 128,755 |
| Kerala | 21,160 |
| Bihar | 15,693 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 15,090 |
| Rajasthan | 12,956 |
| Jharkhand | 9,842 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 9,408 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 5,932 |
| Uttarakhand | 5,162 |
| Haryana | 2,891 |
| Maharashtra | 1,163 |
| Goa | 836 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 813 |
| Delhi | 756 |
| Puducherry | 472 |
| Punjab | 216 |
| Karnataka | 156 |
| Assam | 121 |
| Other states | 213 |
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, sulocana, p. 1232,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Stache-Rosen, Collected Essays: regional Ramayana performance ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Sulochana is Indrajit’s wife in the regional story described in this study.
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.