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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Kulwant

Of a good family; possessing family distinction

Kulwant means “Of a good family; possessing family distinction”.

Origin language
Punjabi / Sanskrit
First letter
K
Historical records
11,242

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Kulwant mean?

Kulwant uses kul, family, with the possessive ending vant. Its conventional sense is someone possessing family distinction, a naming expression shared across Punjabi usage.

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

कुलवंत

Conventional spelling

Gurmukhi

ਕੁਲਵੰਤ

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Kulwant in Indian usage

11,242 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: 4,295 records (38.2%).
  • Recorded as male: 6,947 records (61.8%).

By birth decade

Kulwant: records by birth decade1940s: 8011940s1950s: 1,6351950s1960s: 2,4011960s1970s: 2,3951970s1980s: 2,2901980s1990s: 1,4091990sOther decades: 311Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1940s801
1950s1,635
1960s2,401
1970s2,395
1980s2,290
1990s1,409
Other decades311

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Uttar Pradesh3,330
Haryana3,149
Uttarakhand1,858
Rajasthan1,611
Himachal Pradesh730
Jharkhand188
Madhya Pradesh176
Other states200
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, kulavat, p. 295,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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