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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Agasti

Sage Agastya; Canopus

Agasti means “Sage Agastya; Canopus”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Odia
First letter
A
Historical records
2,383

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Agasti mean?

Agasti is an old form of the sage-name Agastya. Stories describe the sage drinking the ocean and humbling the Vindhya mountains. His name also designates the star Canopus.

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

अगस्ति

Conventional spelling

Odia

ଅଗସ୍ତି

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Agasti in Indian usage

2,383 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: 525 records (22%).
  • Recorded as male: 1,858 records (78%).

By birth decade

Agasti: records by birth decade1940s: 2311940s1950s: 3841950s1960s: 4521960s1970s: 4751970s1980s: 4481980s1990s: 2441990sOther decades: 149Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1940s231
1950s384
1960s452
1970s475
1980s448
1990s244
Other decades149

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Odisha1,702
Other states681
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, agasti, p. 4,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.