MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Varsha mean?
Rainfall is the central sense of Sanskrit varṣā. The word also denotes the rainy season, giving the name its monsoon association.
Pronunciation
IAST: varṣā
Meaning themes
rainwater
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
वर्षा
Letter-by-letter: varṣā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Varsha in Indian usage
122,995 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 121,914 records (99.1%).
- Recorded as male: 1,081 records (0.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 230 |
| 1950s | 982 |
| 1960s | 3,146 |
| 1970s | 10,151 |
| 1980s | 36,878 |
| 1990s | 71,495 |
| Other decades | 113 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 50,931 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 26,549 |
| Rajasthan | 18,282 |
| Bihar | 8,130 |
| Haryana | 5,561 |
| Kerala | 3,409 |
| Jharkhand | 2,417 |
| Uttarakhand | 2,073 |
| Delhi | 1,573 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,189 |
| Goa | 1,129 |
| Maharashtra | 1,075 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 272 |
| Chandigarh | 166 |
| Other states | 239 |
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, varṣā, p. 927,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: वर्षा ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
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