MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Nishant mean?
Niśā, night, combines with anta, end, to give Nishant its dawn sense. Sanskrit records the complete word for daybreak.
Pronunciation
IAST: niśānta
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
निशान्त
Letter-by-letter: niśānta
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
निशांत
Letter-by-letter: niśāṃta
21,452 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Nishant in Indian usage
23,529 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (92.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,783 records (7.6%).
- Recorded as male: 21,746 records (92.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 259 |
| 1970s | 1,754 |
| 1980s | 8,634 |
| 1990s | 12,745 |
| Other decades | 137 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 9,320 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,143 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,675 |
| Haryana | 2,646 |
| Jharkhand | 1,947 |
| Punjab | 1,231 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 964 |
| Rajasthan | 899 |
| Maharashtra | 286 |
| Uttarakhand | 237 |
| Other states | 181 |
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, niśānta, p. 560,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.