MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sunaina mean?
Sunaina joins su, good or beautiful, with nayana, eye, in a vernacular personal name. The vernacular nain, an eye, continues Sanskrit nayana. In the Ramcharitmanas tradition, Sunayana is Janaka's queen and Sita's mother.
Pronunciation
IAST: sunayanā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सुनैना
Letter-by-letter: sunayanā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sunaina in Indian usage
146,715 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 146,219 records (99.7%).
- Recorded as male: 496 records (0.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,585 |
| 1940s | 5,761 |
| 1950s | 15,566 |
| 1960s | 36,678 |
| 1970s | 38,418 |
| 1980s | 29,554 |
| 1990s | 18,657 |
| Other decades | 496 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 105,918 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 21,938 |
| Jharkhand | 9,600 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 3,706 |
| Haryana | 1,685 |
| Delhi | 964 |
| Uttarakhand | 853 |
| Rajasthan | 573 |
| Kerala | 412 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 394 |
| Chandigarh | 171 |
| Punjab | 157 |
| Other states | 344 |
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.
Recorded abroad
Official births registered in 2025, for the exact spelling shown.
| Jurisdiction | Spelling / recorded sex | Births | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England & Wales | Sunaina / F | 4 | 4,867 |
ONS and National Records of Scotland; Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3. Counts follow each office’s publication rules.
Explore related lists
Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- England & Wales 2025 birth statistics: Exact spelling Sunaina; Table_6, C5810 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Exact spelling Sunaina; Table_6, C5810
- Wiktionary: सुनयना ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
- Ramcharitmanas: Janaka and Sunayana ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Janaka's queen Sunayana is Sita's mother in the Ramcharitmanas tradition.
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.