MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kanta mean?
Kāntā is the feminine of the Sanskrit adjective kānta, beloved or pleasing. Kant is a related masculine name in the same dearness vocabulary.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Gurmukhi
ਕਾਂਤਾ
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
कांता
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kanta in Indian usage
78,264 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (97.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 76,041 records (97.2%).
- Recorded as male: 2,223 records (2.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,366 |
| 1940s | 5,660 |
| 1950s | 13,346 |
| 1960s | 21,078 |
| 1970s | 18,163 |
| 1980s | 12,651 |
| 1990s | 5,830 |
| Other decades | 170 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Haryana | 23,341 |
| Punjab | 22,548 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 10,175 |
| Rajasthan | 8,932 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 6,303 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,780 |
| Bihar | 1,345 |
| Jharkhand | 770 |
| Chandigarh | 716 |
| Maharashtra | 590 |
| Uttarakhand | 423 |
| Other states | 341 |
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