MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Uttam mean?
Uttama is the Sanskrit superlative adjective for the highest or best. Modern Hindi retains it as an everyday word for excellence.
Pronunciation
IAST: uttama
Meaning themes
excellence
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
उत्तम
Letter-by-letter: uttama
Conventional spelling
Bengali
উত্তম
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Uttam in Indian usage
94,581 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (95.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 4,675 records (4.9%).
- Recorded as male: 89,906 records (95.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 772 |
| 1940s | 2,375 |
| 1950s | 5,281 |
| 1960s | 12,415 |
| 1970s | 21,922 |
| 1980s | 28,687 |
| 1990s | 22,765 |
| Other decades | 364 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 21,714 |
| Bihar | 14,915 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 13,987 |
| Jharkhand | 11,321 |
| Tripura | 9,276 |
| Assam | 5,103 |
| Rajasthan | 4,989 |
| Uttarakhand | 4,052 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 3,360 |
| Haryana | 1,401 |
| Maharashtra | 1,148 |
| Delhi | 1,087 |
| Goa | 702 |
| Meghalaya | 339 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 229 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 216 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 186 |
| Sikkim | 126 |
| Nagaland | 120 |
| Chandigarh | 118 |
| Other states | 192 |
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, uttama, p. 177,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.