MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Yamini mean?
Yāminī is a Sanskrit poetic word for the night. It derives from yāma, a watch or division of time, describing the night as a sequence of watches.
Pronunciation
IAST: yāminī
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
यामिनी
Letter-by-letter: yāminī
Conventional spelling
Telugu
యామిని
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Yamini in Indian usage
4,205 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (97.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 4,104 records (97.6%).
- Recorded as male: 101 records (2.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1970s | 327 |
| 1980s | 1,132 |
| 1990s | 2,571 |
| Other decades | 175 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Andhra Pradesh | 3,177 |
| Delhi | 612 |
| Goa | 198 |
| Other states | 218 |
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, yāminī, p. 850,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.