MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kirti mean?
Sanskrit kīrti describes a good reputation remembered and spoken of by others. Literature also personifies Kirti as a daughter of Daksha and wife of Dharma.
Pronunciation
IAST: kīrti
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कीर्ति
Letter-by-letter: kīrti
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
कीर्ती
Letter-by-letter: kīrtī
4,905 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
किर्ती
Letter-by-letter: kirtī
4,423 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kirti in Indian usage
51,239 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (89.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 45,879 records (89.5%).
- Recorded as male: 5,360 records (10.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 406 |
| 1950s | 878 |
| 1960s | 1,908 |
| 1970s | 4,804 |
| 1980s | 16,813 |
| 1990s | 26,269 |
| Other decades | 161 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 20,763 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 9,805 |
| Rajasthan | 5,819 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 4,288 |
| Haryana | 3,847 |
| Uttarakhand | 2,114 |
| Kerala | 2,036 |
| Jharkhand | 749 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 502 |
| Bihar | 500 |
| Maharashtra | 420 |
| Chandigarh | 195 |
| Other states | 201 |
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, kīrti, p. 285,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.