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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Dushmant

Dushyanta, husband of Shakuntala

Dushmant means “Dushyanta, husband of Shakuntala”.

Origin language
Odia / Sanskrit
First letter
D
Historical records
5,480

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Dushmant mean?

Dushmant is the Odia name corresponding to Dushyanta. He is Shakuntala's husband and Bharata's father in the Mahabharata and in Kalidasa's drama. Their son Bharata becomes an important royal ancestor in the epic.

Spellings in Indian scripts

Odia

ଦୁଷ୍ମନ୍ତ

Conventional spelling

Devanagari

दुष्मन्त

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Dushmant in Indian usage

5,480 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for boys (80.6%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 1,065 records (19.4%).
  • Recorded as male: 4,415 records (80.6%).

By birth decade

Dushmant: records by birth decade1960s: 3361960s1970s: 1,0901970s1980s: 2,1301980s1990s: 1,7961990sOther decades: 128Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1960s336
1970s1,090
1980s2,130
1990s1,796
Other decades128

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Odisha5,480
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Wiktionary: दुष्यन्त ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  3. Wiktionary: दुष्यंत ↗ (opens in a new tab)

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