MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kuri mean?
Northwestern kuṛī is a word for a girl and gives Kuri a familiar feminine sense in regional naming. Sanskrit kurī is a separate plant word for a kind of grass or grain, providing another whole-word interpretation.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कुरी
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kuri in Indian usage
4,895 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (92.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 4,536 records (92.7%).
- Recorded as male: 359 records (7.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 502 |
| 1940s | 819 |
| 1950s | 1,013 |
| 1960s | 994 |
| 1970s | 625 |
| 1980s | 498 |
| 1990s | 279 |
| Other decades | 165 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 3,510 |
| Odisha | 688 |
| Maharashtra | 284 |
| Uttarakhand | 125 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 123 |
| Other states | 165 |
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, kurī, p. 294,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.