MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Veena mean?
The Indian stringed instrument vīṇā gives Veena its musical sense. Traditional depictions of Saraswati show her holding this instrument.
Pronunciation
IAST: vīṇā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
वीणा
Letter-by-letter: vīṇā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Veena in Indian usage
280,702 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 278,853 records (99.3%).
- Recorded as male: 1,849 records (0.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,394 |
| 1940s | 7,114 |
| 1950s | 26,771 |
| 1960s | 66,281 |
| 1970s | 76,008 |
| 1980s | 69,185 |
| 1990s | 33,506 |
| Other decades | 443 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 107,229 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 32,951 |
| Punjab | 31,144 |
| Jharkhand | 20,161 |
| Haryana | 19,312 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 18,530 |
| Delhi | 12,811 |
| Rajasthan | 12,413 |
| Kerala | 7,206 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 6,831 |
| Karnataka | 4,526 |
| Uttarakhand | 2,987 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 1,749 |
| Chandigarh | 1,417 |
| Goa | 643 |
| Maharashtra | 438 |
| Odisha | 245 |
| Other states | 109 |
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, vīṇā, p. 1005,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: वीणा ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.