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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Het

Affection; love; purpose

Het means “Affection; love; purpose”.

Origin language
Hindi / Punjabi / Sanskrit
First letter
H
Historical records
9,015

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Het mean?

Het is a regional word for affection or loving attachment. It is also related to hetu, a cause or purpose, giving the short name a second familiar lexical sense.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

हेत

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Het in Indian usage

9,015 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for boys (98.1%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 170 records (1.9%).
  • Recorded as male: 8,845 records (98.1%).

By birth decade

Het: records by birth decade1940s: 9881940s1950s: 1,6101950s1960s: 2,0721960s1970s: 1,9271970s1980s: 1,3551980s1990s: 5691990sOther decades: 494Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1940s988
1950s1,610
1960s2,072
1970s1,927
1980s1,355
1990s569
Other decades494

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Himachal Pradesh2,437
Uttar Pradesh2,044
Rajasthan1,650
Haryana1,394
Madhya Pradesh862
Punjab481
Other states147
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

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