MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Jayant mean?
Jayant comes from Sanskrit jayanta, “victorious”. Jayanta is the son of Indra and Shachi in epic and Puranic stories.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
जयंत
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Jayant in Indian usage
2,154 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: 612 records (28.4%).
- Recorded as male: 1,542 records (71.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 276 |
| 1970s | 480 |
| 1980s | 678 |
| 1990s | 492 |
| Other decades | 228 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Delhi | 1,546 |
| Goa | 288 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 137 |
| Other states | 183 |
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, jayanta, p. 413,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.