MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Chauthi mean?
Chauthi is the feminine ordinal for “fourth” in Hindi. As a household name it belongs to the older practice of naming children by birth order.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
चौथी
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Chauthi in Indian usage
13,566 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: 7,293 records (53.8%).
- Recorded as male: 6,273 records (46.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,041 |
| 1940s | 2,220 |
| 1950s | 2,868 |
| 1960s | 2,942 |
| 1970s | 1,981 |
| 1980s | 1,537 |
| 1990s | 674 |
| Other decades | 303 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 6,944 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 5,031 |
| Bihar | 1,256 |
| Other states | 335 |
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