MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kanti mean?
Kānti is a Sanskrit noun for radiance, beauty or a pleasing appearance. The Sanskrit noun kānti can refer to visible lustre as well as attractiveness.
Pronunciation
IAST: kānti
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कान्ति
Letter-by-letter: kānti
Conventional spelling
Odia
କାନ୍ତି
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਕਾਂਤੀ
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
कांति
Letter-by-letter: kāṃti
55,441 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
कान्ती
Letter-by-letter: kāntī
46,631 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
कांती
Letter-by-letter: kāṃtī
45,070 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kanti in Indian usage
175,117 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (91.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 160,578 records (91.7%).
- Recorded as male: 14,539 records (8.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 2,946 |
| 1940s | 9,924 |
| 1950s | 24,312 |
| 1960s | 51,736 |
| 1970s | 45,233 |
| 1980s | 27,207 |
| 1990s | 13,119 |
| Other decades | 640 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 86,173 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 41,016 |
| Jharkhand | 13,920 |
| Rajasthan | 12,653 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 11,498 |
| Odisha | 4,340 |
| Uttarakhand | 2,363 |
| Punjab | 811 |
| Haryana | 805 |
| Tripura | 562 |
| Assam | 283 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 271 |
| Maharashtra | 245 |
| Other states | 177 |
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, kānti, p. 270,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.