MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Usha mean?
Uṣas is the dawn personified in Vedic poetry, and Usha keeps that association with the first light of morning. The dawn goddess is praised in hymns of the Rigveda.
Pronunciation
IAST: uṣā
Meaning themes
dawnlight
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
उषा
Letter-by-letter: uṣā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Usha in Indian usage
1,006,008 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,002,292 records (99.6%).
- Recorded as male: 3,716 records (0.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 1,011 |
| 1930s | 3,450 |
| 1940s | 17,423 |
| 1950s | 76,523 |
| 1960s | 216,452 |
| 1970s | 304,163 |
| 1980s | 262,500 |
| 1990s | 124,324 |
| Other decades | 162 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 340,789 |
| Bihar | 233,807 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 93,255 |
| Kerala | 65,223 |
| Haryana | 59,173 |
| Rajasthan | 48,424 |
| Jharkhand | 46,529 |
| Delhi | 31,709 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 19,658 |
| Uttarakhand | 19,360 |
| Odisha | 18,771 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 14,793 |
| Assam | 3,146 |
| Tripura | 2,518 |
| Chandigarh | 2,413 |
| Puducherry | 1,466 |
| Maharashtra | 1,442 |
| Goa | 1,363 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 482 |
| Meghalaya | 454 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 363 |
| Sikkim | 325 |
| Nagaland | 131 |
| Manipur | 110 |
| Other states | 304 |
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, uṣas, p. 220,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: उषा ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.