MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Suman mean?
Suman can be a flower name in Sanskrit vocabulary. A separate reading joins su with manas, the mind, giving a good or well-disposed mind.
Pronunciation
IAST: sumana
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सुमन
Letter-by-letter: sumana
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਸੁਮਨ
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
सूमन
Letter-by-letter: sūmana
3,396 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Suman in Indian usage
1,130,009 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (92.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,048,970 records (92.8%).
- Recorded as male: 81,039 records (7.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 717 |
| 1930s | 1,204 |
| 1940s | 5,962 |
| 1950s | 25,077 |
| 1960s | 98,961 |
| 1970s | 231,916 |
| 1980s | 440,005 |
| 1990s | 326,053 |
| Other decades | 114 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 446,456 |
| Rajasthan | 190,643 |
| Haryana | 151,416 |
| Bihar | 122,388 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 92,834 |
| Delhi | 29,469 |
| Jharkhand | 28,198 |
| Uttarakhand | 21,394 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 11,721 |
| Punjab | 11,176 |
| Tripura | 8,167 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 4,124 |
| Assam | 3,272 |
| Chandigarh | 2,838 |
| Maharashtra | 1,826 |
| Goa | 1,036 |
| Kerala | 693 |
| Sikkim | 506 |
| Meghalaya | 327 |
| Karnataka | 293 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 274 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 247 |
| Nagaland | 120 |
| Manipur | 115 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 109 |
| Gujarat | 103 |
| Other states | 264 |
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, sumana, p. 1230,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.