MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kanya mean?
Kanya is a Sanskrit word for a girl or daughter. It also names the constellation Virgo. Epic literature records Kanya as a name of Durga.
Pronunciation
IAST: kanyā
Meaning themes
daughter
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कन्या
Letter-by-letter: kanyā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kanya in Indian usage
18,774 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (98.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 18,413 records (98.1%).
- Recorded as male: 361 records (1.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,422 |
| 1950s | 2,852 |
| 1960s | 4,032 |
| 1970s | 3,553 |
| 1980s | 3,846 |
| 1990s | 2,470 |
| Other decades | 599 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 12,997 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,887 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 791 |
| Bihar | 278 |
| Odisha | 210 |
| Tripura | 147 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 133 |
| Other states | 331 |
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, kanyā, p. 249,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: कन्या ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.