MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sushama mean?
Beauty or fine appearance is the noun sense of Sanskrit suṣamā. Sushma is a familiar contracted name form in the same word family.
Pronunciation
IAST: suṣamā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सुषमा
Letter-by-letter: suṣamā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sushama in Indian usage
397,100 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 395,441 records (99.6%).
- Recorded as male: 1,659 records (0.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 856 |
| 1940s | 3,735 |
| 1950s | 15,454 |
| 1960s | 55,666 |
| 1970s | 92,598 |
| 1980s | 130,135 |
| 1990s | 98,191 |
| Other decades | 465 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 118,724 |
| Odisha | 97,467 |
| Bihar | 47,783 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 43,178 |
| Haryana | 31,415 |
| Jharkhand | 21,785 |
| Rajasthan | 10,564 |
| Uttarakhand | 10,215 |
| Kerala | 7,111 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 3,971 |
| Chandigarh | 1,170 |
| Tripura | 1,052 |
| Assam | 737 |
| Delhi | 704 |
| Maharashtra | 612 |
| Goa | 346 |
| Other states | 266 |
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, suṣamā, p. 1237,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: सुषमा ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
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