MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Tabassum mean?
Tabassum is an Arabic verbal noun for smiling. It entered Urdu literary vocabulary as well as personal naming, retaining a specific facial-expression sense.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
तबस्सुम
Conventional spelling
Arabic
تبسم
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Tabassum in Indian usage
72,079 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (98.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 71,214 records (98.8%).
- Recorded as male: 865 records (1.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 415 |
| 1960s | 2,572 |
| 1970s | 10,636 |
| 1980s | 29,877 |
| 1990s | 28,418 |
| Other decades | 161 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 35,642 |
| Bihar | 17,922 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 5,791 |
| Jharkhand | 4,531 |
| Rajasthan | 2,706 |
| Maharashtra | 1,909 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,562 |
| Delhi | 869 |
| Haryana | 522 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 279 |
| Goa | 125 |
| Other states | 221 |
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