MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sumana mean?
Sumana is connected with sumanas, good minded or cheerful. Sanskrit also uses sumana for flowering jasmine and other plants, giving the personal name a floral sense.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सुमना
Conventional spelling
Odia
ସୁମନା
Conventional spelling
Kannada
ಸುಮನಾ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sumana in Indian usage
10,110 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: 7,532 records (74.5%).
- Recorded as male: 2,578 records (25.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 773 |
| 1960s | 1,684 |
| 1970s | 2,132 |
| 1980s | 2,590 |
| 1990s | 2,579 |
| Other decades | 352 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 4,469 |
| Karnataka | 4,385 |
| Kerala | 692 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 430 |
| Other states | 134 |
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, sumanā, p. 1230,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, sumanas, p. 1230,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.