MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sunanda mean?
Sunanda is the feminine of Sanskrit sunanda, pleasing or delighting. The name can identify Uma or a companion of Uma. Sanskrit narrative tradition also gives this name to a wife of Krishna.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सुनन्दा
Conventional spelling
Kannada
ಸುನಂದಾ
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
सुनंदा
Letter-by-letter: sunaṃdā
4,598 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sunanda in Indian usage
33,593 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (97%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 32,592 records (97%).
- Recorded as male: 1,001 records (3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 931 |
| 1950s | 2,200 |
| 1960s | 5,764 |
| 1970s | 9,606 |
| 1980s | 10,008 |
| 1990s | 4,816 |
| Other decades | 268 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Karnataka | 19,194 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 3,345 |
| Kerala | 3,069 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 2,964 |
| Goa | 1,273 |
| Maharashtra | 1,148 |
| Odisha | 949 |
| Bihar | 501 |
| Delhi | 253 |
| Jharkhand | 230 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 188 |
| Haryana | 134 |
| Other states | 345 |
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, sunanda, p. 1226,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, sunandā, p. 1226,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.