MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Lata mean?
Latā is a plant-growth word used in poetic comparisons and as the final member of names such as Hemlata. Sanskrit poetry often uses a creeper as an image of slender, graceful growth.
Pronunciation
IAST: latā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
लता
Letter-by-letter: latā
Conventional spelling
Kannada
ಲತಾ
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਲਤਾ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Lata in Indian usage
166,293 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 165,506 records (99.5%).
- Recorded as male: 787 records (0.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 662 |
| 1940s | 2,499 |
| 1950s | 8,695 |
| 1960s | 33,633 |
| 1970s | 42,406 |
| 1980s | 51,884 |
| 1990s | 26,369 |
| Other decades | 145 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 35,706 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 35,364 |
| Odisha | 25,135 |
| Rajasthan | 13,018 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 11,475 |
| Delhi | 8,012 |
| Karnataka | 6,293 |
| Bihar | 6,070 |
| Uttarakhand | 5,843 |
| Haryana | 4,717 |
| Jharkhand | 4,470 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 4,053 |
| Punjab | 1,804 |
| Maharashtra | 1,521 |
| Goa | 1,216 |
| Assam | 574 |
| Chandigarh | 258 |
| Tripura | 193 |
| Manipur | 101 |
| Other states | 470 |
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, latā, p. 895,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: लता ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.