MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Ravikant mean?
Ravi is the sun and kānta carries the idea of being beloved. Sanskrit records the whole compound for the sunstone, a kind of crystal.
Pronunciation
IAST: ravikānta
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
रविकान्त
Letter-by-letter: ravikānta
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
रविकांत
Letter-by-letter: ravikāṃta
10,800 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Ravikant in Indian usage
38,653 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 249 records (0.6%).
- Recorded as male: 38,404 records (99.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 518 |
| 1960s | 1,766 |
| 1970s | 4,866 |
| 1980s | 15,351 |
| 1990s | 15,927 |
| Other decades | 225 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 16,010 |
| Bihar | 9,715 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 4,892 |
| Rajasthan | 4,296 |
| Jharkhand | 2,040 |
| Haryana | 1,062 |
| Uttarakhand | 421 |
| Other states | 217 |
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, ravikānta, p. 869,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.