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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Kalaivani

Goddess of the arts; Saraswati

Kalaivani means “Goddess of the arts; Saraswati”.

Origin language
Tamil / Sanskrit
First letter
K
Historical records
2,319

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Kalaivani mean?

Kalaivani joins Tamil kalai, art or learning, with Vani, the goddess of speech. The compound names Saraswati in her role as the patron of music, learning and the arts.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

कलैवाणी

Conventional spelling

Tamil

கலைவாணி

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Kalaivani in Indian usage

2,319 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Kalaivani: records by birth decade1970s: 5761970s1980s: 9411980s1990s: 4791990sOther decades: 323Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1970s576
1980s941
1990s479
Other decades323

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Puducherry1,996
Kerala206
Other states117
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. Monier-Williams, sarasvatī, p. 1182,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  3. Wiktionary: கலை ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    meaning

  4. Wiktionary: वाणी ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    meaning

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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