MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Dukhanti mean?
Dukhanti belongs to the North Indian Dukh name group, based on sorrow or hardship. Such names can record difficult family circumstances at birth as part of older vernacular naming.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
दुखन्ती
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Dukhanti in Indian usage
1,738 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: 550 records (31.6%).
- Recorded as male: 1,188 records (68.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 177 |
| 1940s | 391 |
| 1950s | 403 |
| 1960s | 397 |
| 1970s | 207 |
| Other decades | 163 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,469 |
| Other states | 269 |
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, duḥkha, p. 483,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.