MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Tanuja mean?
Tanuja is the Sanskrit feminine noun for a daughter. It combines tanu, body, with the idea of being born, expressing a child as one born of the parent's body.
Pronunciation
IAST: tanujā
Meaning themes
daughter
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
तनुजा
Letter-by-letter: tanujā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Tanuja in Indian usage
19,043 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (98.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 18,829 records (98.9%).
- Recorded as male: 214 records (1.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,293 |
| 1970s | 4,161 |
| 1980s | 6,756 |
| 1990s | 6,558 |
| Other decades | 275 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 4,269 |
| Uttarakhand | 2,083 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,079 |
| Odisha | 1,716 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 1,381 |
| Jharkhand | 1,274 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,221 |
| Rajasthan | 1,172 |
| Karnataka | 874 |
| Goa | 618 |
| Delhi | 533 |
| Assam | 472 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 368 |
| Tripura | 305 |
| Haryana | 300 |
| Other states | 378 |
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, tanujā, p. 435,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.