Samjhana

Meaning

memory, remembrance; the everyday Nepali word, not a Sanskrit borrowing taken whole, and beloved through 1970s and 80s Nepali film and song; instantly recognizable to any Nepali as home

Popularity, 1890–2024

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Samjhana has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.

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Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Samjhana truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Samjhana fits with your family’s names and surname.

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