MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kunti mean?
Kuntī is the Mahabharata name of the mother of Yudhishthira, Bhima and Arjuna. Her story also uses the name Pritha, while Kunti is associated with her adoptive family.
Pronunciation
IAST: kuntī
Meaning themes
mahabharata
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कुन्ती
Letter-by-letter: kuntī
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
कुंती
Letter-by-letter: kuṃtī
66,993 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kunti in Indian usage
68,344 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 68,069 records (99.6%).
- Recorded as male: 275 records (0.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,778 |
| 1940s | 4,875 |
| 1950s | 10,619 |
| 1960s | 20,076 |
| 1970s | 17,063 |
| 1980s | 7,841 |
| 1990s | 5,623 |
| Other decades | 469 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 39,315 |
| Jharkhand | 19,375 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 4,317 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 3,576 |
| Haryana | 881 |
| Rajasthan | 401 |
| Uttarakhand | 358 |
| Other states | 121 |
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, kuntī, p. 291,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.