MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Usa mean?
Usha is the Sanskrit word for dawn, personified as a goddess in Vedic poetry. The name carries the image of morning light into Punjabi and other Indian naming.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Gurmukhi
ਊਸ਼ਾ
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
उषा
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Usa in Indian usage
9,729 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 |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 519 |
| 1950s | 1,571 |
| 1960s | 2,764 |
| 1970s | 2,614 |
| 1980s | 1,656 |
| 1990s | 498 |
| Other decades | 107 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Punjab | 9,288 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 248 |
| Other states | 193 |
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, uṣā, p. 220,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.