MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Antar mean?
Antara covers an interior space and the inner heart or soul in Sanskrit. Antar also carries the everyday Hindi sense of a gap, distance or difference.
Pronunciation
IAST: antara
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
अन्तर
Letter-by-letter: antara
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
अंतर
Letter-by-letter: aṃtara
2,634 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Antar in Indian usage
11,805 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: 7,622 records (64.6%).
- Recorded as male: 4,183 records (35.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 787 |
| 1950s | 1,445 |
| 1960s | 2,159 |
| 1970s | 2,128 |
| 1980s | 2,771 |
| 1990s | 2,112 |
| Other decades | 403 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 5,321 |
| Rajasthan | 4,813 |
| Bihar | 645 |
| Haryana | 330 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 302 |
| Odisha | 244 |
| Other states | 150 |
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, antara, p. 43,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.