MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Upama mean?
Upama is a Sanskrit noun for comparison or resemblance. In classical poetics it names the simile, the figure that describes one thing through a likeness to another.
Pronunciation
IAST: upamā
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
उपमा
Letter-by-letter: upamā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Upama in Indian usage
8,098 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 233 |
| 1960s | 869 |
| 1970s | 1,867 |
| 1980s | 2,967 |
| 1990s | 2,047 |
| Other decades | 115 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,631 |
| Odisha | 1,800 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 839 |
| Bihar | 448 |
| Assam | 340 |
| Haryana | 211 |
| Rajasthan | 202 |
| Punjab | 191 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 159 |
| Jharkhand | 129 |
| Other states | 148 |
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, upamā, p. 203,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.