MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Suma mean?
Suma uses Sanskrit suma, a flower, as a feminine personal name. It is especially familiar in Kannada and Telugu naming, where the floral word stands independently as a given name.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सुमा
Conventional spelling
Kannada
ಸುಮಾ
Conventional spelling
Telugu
సుమ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Suma in Indian usage
29,466 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (96.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 28,481 records (96.7%).
- Recorded as male: 985 records (3.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 660 |
| 1940s | 1,729 |
| 1950s | 3,392 |
| 1960s | 6,238 |
| 1970s | 6,614 |
| 1980s | 6,313 |
| 1990s | 4,338 |
| Other decades | 182 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 12,901 |
| Jharkhand | 6,514 |
| Karnataka | 2,492 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,690 |
| Assam | 1,680 |
| Odisha | 1,234 |
| Rajasthan | 854 |
| Tripura | 680 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 383 |
| Uttarakhand | 378 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 356 |
| Maharashtra | 115 |
| Other states | 189 |
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, suma, p. 1230,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.