MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Tulasi mean?
Tulasī names the basil plant with an established place in domestic worship and literary associations with Vishnu. Tulsi is the conventional contraction of the plant name.
Pronunciation
IAST: tulasī
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
तुलसी
Letter-by-letter: tulasī
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Tulasi in Indian usage
172,995 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: 102,598 records (59.3%).
- Recorded as male: 70,397 records (40.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 1,714 |
| 1930s | 6,365 |
| 1940s | 14,716 |
| 1950s | 24,000 |
| 1960s | 32,458 |
| 1970s | 32,826 |
| 1980s | 36,023 |
| 1990s | 24,740 |
| Other decades | 153 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 42,366 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 27,501 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 22,194 |
| Jharkhand | 20,902 |
| Bihar | 19,189 |
| Odisha | 13,994 |
| Uttarakhand | 11,346 |
| Haryana | 3,944 |
| Tripura | 2,811 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 2,016 |
| Assam | 1,888 |
| Punjab | 1,844 |
| Delhi | 1,403 |
| Maharashtra | 321 |
| Chandigarh | 217 |
| Meghalaya | 206 |
| Goa | 186 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 182 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 114 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 113 |
| Other states | 258 |
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.