MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Arati mean?
Arati names the ceremony of waving a light before a deity. Its Sanskrit background includes ārātrika, the lamp or vessel used in that ritual. The older description specifically places the ceremony at night.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
आरती
Conventional spelling
Kannada
ಆರತಿ
Conventional spelling
Bengali
আরতি
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Arati in Indian usage
16,667 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 16,564 records (99.4%).
- Recorded as male: 103 records (0.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 359 |
| 1950s | 1,053 |
| 1960s | 2,321 |
| 1970s | 3,644 |
| 1980s | 5,120 |
| 1990s | 3,995 |
| Other decades | 175 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 7,460 |
| Karnataka | 5,095 |
| Tripura | 1,962 |
| Assam | 625 |
| Bihar | 624 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 222 |
| Jharkhand | 219 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 217 |
| Kerala | 131 |
| Other states | 112 |
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, ārātrika, p. 150,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.