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Tharani

Earth; the sustaining one

Tharani means “Earth; the sustaining one”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Odia / Tamil
First letter
T
Historical records
1,079

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Tharani mean?

Tharani corresponds to Dharani, a Sanskrit name of the earth used in Odia and southern naming. Its root concerns holding or supporting, so the earth is described as the one that sustains living things.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

धरणी

Conventional spelling

Odia

ଧରଣୀ

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Tharani in Indian usage

1,079 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.

  • Recorded as female: 398 records (36.9%).
  • Recorded as male: 681 records (63.1%).

By birth decade

Tharani: records by birth decade1960s: 2211960s1970s: 3371970s1980s: 2141980s1990s: 1661990sOther decades: 141Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1960s221
1970s337
1980s214
1990s166
Other decades141

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Odisha890
Other states189
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, dharaṇī, p. 510,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  3. Wiktionary: धरणी ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    meaning

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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