MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Tabasum mean?
Tabassum is an Arabic verbal noun for the act of smiling. It became a feminine name in Persian and Urdu, where a smile is a familiar image of warmth in poetic address.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
तबस्सुम
Conventional spelling
Arabic
تبسم
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
तबसुम
8,853 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Tabasum in Indian usage
8,853 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling तबसुम.
Mostly recorded for girls (98.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 8,719 records (98.5%).
- Recorded as male: 134 records (1.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 231 |
| 1970s | 1,366 |
| 1980s | 3,902 |
| 1990s | 3,354 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 4,584 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,654 |
| Jharkhand | 1,314 |
| Rajasthan | 513 |
| Maharashtra | 385 |
| Other states | 403 |
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