MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Tarani mean?
Tarani can represent Tarini, the delivering goddess and a form of Durga. Sanskrit taraṇī, with a short first vowel, means a boat. The separate masculine noun taraṇi denotes the sun.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
तारणी
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
तारनी
Letter-by-letter: tāranī
2,963 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
तरणी
Letter-by-letter: taraṇī
677 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Tarani in Indian usage
2,963 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling तारनी.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 901 records (30.4%).
- Recorded as male: 2,062 records (69.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 469 |
| 1950s | 784 |
| 1960s | 908 |
| 1970s | 575 |
| Other decades | 227 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 2,185 |
| Jharkhand | 778 |
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, tāriṇī, p. 444,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, taraṇī, p. 438,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, taraṇi, p. 438,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.