MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Tapasi mean?
Tapasi is the feminine form connected with tapas, ascetic discipline. The Sanskrit word denotes a woman who undertakes a life of spiritual practice.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
तापसी
Conventional spelling
Bengali
তাপসী
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Tapasi in Indian usage
4,344 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (96.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 4,176 records (96.1%).
- Recorded as male: 168 records (3.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 609 |
| 1970s | 1,045 |
| 1980s | 1,509 |
| 1990s | 931 |
| Other decades | 250 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Tripura | 1,749 |
| Jharkhand | 760 |
| Odisha | 680 |
| Assam | 586 |
| Bihar | 281 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 104 |
| Other states | 184 |
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, tāpasī, p. 442,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.