MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Yamuna mean?
Yamunā is the river prominent in Krishna narratives around Mathura and Vrindavan. It is also personified as a river goddess, retaining the geographical name in personal use.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Bengali
যমুনা
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
यमुना
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Yamuna in Indian usage
87,610 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 68,343 records (78%).
- Recorded as male: 19,267 records (22%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 3,001 |
| 1940s | 6,571 |
| 1950s | 10,419 |
| 1960s | 23,080 |
| 1970s | 13,677 |
| 1980s | 21,182 |
| 1990s | 8,838 |
| Other decades | 842 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 45,019 |
| Bihar | 14,780 |
| Jharkhand | 11,124 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 4,314 |
| Assam | 4,130 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,942 |
| Tripura | 2,790 |
| Karnataka | 608 |
| Rajasthan | 579 |
| Uttarakhand | 559 |
| Maharashtra | 255 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 233 |
| Haryana | 128 |
| Other states | 149 |
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, yamunā, p. 847,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.