MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Chaturi mean?
Chaturi belongs to the Sanskrit and Hindi vocabulary of cleverness and practical skill. Its base chatur describes someone dexterous or ingenious in handling a task.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
चतुरी
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Chaturi in Indian usage
7,213 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: 2,459 records (34.1%).
- Recorded as male: 4,754 records (65.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 538 |
| 1940s | 1,265 |
| 1950s | 1,638 |
| 1960s | 1,746 |
| 1970s | 1,148 |
| 1980s | 550 |
| 1990s | 187 |
| Other decades | 141 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,841 |
| Bihar | 1,894 |
| Odisha | 899 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 661 |
| Rajasthan | 588 |
| Other states | 330 |
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, catura, p. 386,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, cāturī, p. 392,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.