MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sunar mean?
Sunar is a Bhojpuri vernacular form of sundar, beautiful or lovely. The loss of the medial d is a familiar feature of this regional adjective.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सुनर
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sunar in Indian usage
3,114 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: 1,907 records (61.2%).
- Recorded as male: 1,207 records (38.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 207 |
| 1940s | 404 |
| 1950s | 658 |
| 1960s | 758 |
| 1970s | 593 |
| 1980s | 322 |
| Other decades | 172 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 2,524 |
| Jharkhand | 229 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 211 |
| Other states | 150 |
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, sundara, p. 1227,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.