MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Upasana mean?
Upasana is the Sanskrit vocabulary of attentive worship or adoration. Its underlying verb combines the idea of being near with sitting, giving devotion an image of close attendance.
Pronunciation
IAST: upāsanā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
उपासना
Letter-by-letter: upāsanā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Upasana in Indian usage
21,291 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (98.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 21,042 records (98.8%).
- Recorded as male: 249 records (1.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 494 |
| 1970s | 2,344 |
| 1980s | 7,946 |
| 1990s | 10,358 |
| Other decades | 149 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 12,452 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,078 |
| Haryana | 1,024 |
| Bihar | 978 |
| Delhi | 965 |
| Rajasthan | 809 |
| Uttarakhand | 638 |
| Punjab | 593 |
| Odisha | 480 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 471 |
| Jharkhand | 363 |
| Assam | 172 |
| Other states | 268 |
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, upāsana, p. 215,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: उपासना ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.