MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sumer mean?
The cosmic mountain Sumeru supplies the familiar name Sumer. Indian cosmological traditions place this mountain at the centre of their world picture.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सुमेर
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sumer in Indian usage
45,632 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (95.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,941 records (4.3%).
- Recorded as male: 43,691 records (95.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,001 |
| 1940s | 2,933 |
| 1950s | 5,627 |
| 1960s | 8,854 |
| 1970s | 8,873 |
| 1980s | 10,232 |
| 1990s | 7,899 |
| Other decades | 213 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 17,900 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 9,851 |
| Haryana | 7,763 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 5,910 |
| Bihar | 1,250 |
| Delhi | 1,028 |
| Uttarakhand | 861 |
| Jharkhand | 463 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 296 |
| Other states | 310 |
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, sumeru, p. 1231,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.