MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kushtha mean?
Sanskrit kuṣṭha names the costus plant in medicinal vocabulary. The same word also denotes leprosy, leaving two real lexical senses associated with the Odia name.
Pronunciation
IAST: kuṣṭha
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कुष्ठ
Letter-by-letter: kuṣṭha
Conventional spelling
Odia
କୁଷ୍ଠ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kushtha in Indian usage
21,553 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (89.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 2,213 records (10.3%).
- Recorded as male: 19,340 records (89.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 369 |
| 1940s | 773 |
| 1950s | 1,420 |
| 1960s | 1,728 |
| 1970s | 12,510 |
| 1980s | 2,724 |
| 1990s | 1,923 |
| Other decades | 106 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 21,553 |
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, kuṣṭha, p. 297,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.