MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kranti mean?
Kranti is the modern Indian word for a revolution or far-reaching change. Its Sanskrit source kranti includes going forward and overcoming, which explains the later sense of a decisive transformation.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
क्रान्ति
Conventional spelling
Telugu
క్రాంతి
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
क्रांति
Letter-by-letter: krāṃti
16,967 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kranti in Indian usage
1,202 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 503 records (41.8%).
- Recorded as male: 699 records (58.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1980s | 585 |
| 1990s | 463 |
| Other decades | 154 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Andhra Pradesh | 987 |
| Other states | 215 |
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, krānti, p. 320,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: क्रांति ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.