MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kasturi mean?
Kasturi is the name of musk, a fragrant substance long used in Indian perfumery. Sanskrit also applies the word to aromatic plants, extending the name's association with fragrance into the plant world.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कस्तूरी
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kasturi in Indian usage
34,548 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (96.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 33,366 records (96.6%).
- Recorded as male: 1,182 records (3.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 2,984 |
| 1940s | 5,743 |
| 1950s | 7,503 |
| 1960s | 7,472 |
| 1970s | 5,500 |
| 1980s | 3,122 |
| 1990s | 1,403 |
| Other decades | 821 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 14,574 |
| Rajasthan | 5,634 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 5,025 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 4,237 |
| Haryana | 2,480 |
| Bihar | 647 |
| Odisha | 597 |
| Uttarakhand | 415 |
| Goa | 279 |
| Jharkhand | 193 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 164 |
| Other states | 303 |
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
- Given-name entry (Wikidata): Kasturi ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Given-name spelling
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, kastūrī, p. 266,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.