MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Thanuja mean?
Thanuja comes from Sanskrit tanuja, literally born from the body. Its feminine form is the ordinary literary word for a daughter, which became a personal name.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
तनुजा
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Thanuja in Indian usage
1,517 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (83.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,262 records (83.2%).
- Recorded as male: 255 records (16.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1970s | 307 |
| 1980s | 468 |
| 1990s | 617 |
| Other decades | 125 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Andhra Pradesh | 680 |
| Kerala | 476 |
| Other states | 361 |
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
- Given-name entry (Wikidata): Thanuja ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Given-name spelling
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, tanūjā, p. 435,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.