MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Taruna mean?
Taruna is the feminine personal-name form related to Sanskrit taruna, young or tender. The word also describes fresh growth and newly begun things, extending the name's sense beyond age alone.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
तरुणा
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
तरूणा
Letter-by-letter: tarūṇā
4,784 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Taruna in Indian usage
4,784 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling तरूणा.
Mostly recorded for girls (97.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 4,664 records (97.5%).
- Recorded as male: 120 records (2.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 173 |
| 1970s | 897 |
| 1980s | 2,087 |
| 1990s | 1,627 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 2,115 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,491 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 931 |
| Bihar | 129 |
| Other states | 118 |
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, taruṇa, p. 439,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.