MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kamini mean?
Kāminī is a feminine Sanskrit word related to kāma, desire or love. In literary use it describes a woman or beloved.
Pronunciation
IAST: kāminī
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कामिनी
Letter-by-letter: kāminī
Conventional spelling
Odia
କାମିନୀ
Conventional spelling
Bengali
কামিনী
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kamini in Indian usage
55,673 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (97.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 54,495 records (97.9%).
- Recorded as male: 1,178 records (2.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 556 |
| 1940s | 1,582 |
| 1950s | 3,865 |
| 1960s | 7,945 |
| 1970s | 11,125 |
| 1980s | 15,696 |
| 1990s | 14,720 |
| Other decades | 184 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 22,094 |
| Odisha | 11,365 |
| Bihar | 9,282 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 4,445 |
| Assam | 2,318 |
| Rajasthan | 1,660 |
| Jharkhand | 1,234 |
| Haryana | 1,061 |
| Uttarakhand | 801 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 545 |
| Tripura | 359 |
| Punjab | 295 |
| Other states | 214 |
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, kāminī, p. 273,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.