MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Tulasa mean?
Sacred basil, Sanskrit tulasī, supplies the vernacular name Tulasa. The plant has an important devotional place in the worship of Vishnu.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
तुलसा
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Tulasa in Indian usage
45,117 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (95.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 43,141 records (95.6%).
- Recorded as male: 1,976 records (4.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,898 |
| 1940s | 4,209 |
| 1950s | 6,434 |
| 1960s | 9,010 |
| 1970s | 9,210 |
| 1980s | 8,300 |
| 1990s | 5,605 |
| Other decades | 451 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 20,693 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 9,534 |
| Rajasthan | 6,681 |
| Odisha | 4,852 |
| Karnataka | 1,096 |
| Haryana | 912 |
| Uttarakhand | 385 |
| Punjab | 306 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 280 |
| Assam | 200 |
| Other states | 178 |
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, tulasī, p. 451,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.