MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Santa mean?
Santa is a vernacular form of Shanta, the feminine of Sanskrit śānta. The source is a participle meaning calmed or at peace, which became an established feminine name.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शान्ता
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
संता
Letter-by-letter: saṃtā
3,573 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Santa in Indian usage
16,806 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (92%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 15,460 records (92%).
- Recorded as male: 1,346 records (8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 442 |
| 1950s | 920 |
| 1960s | 1,621 |
| 1970s | 4,221 |
| 1980s | 6,785 |
| 1990s | 2,689 |
| Other decades | 128 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Delhi | 13,559 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 1,719 |
| Sikkim | 1,004 |
| Meghalaya | 198 |
| Other states | 326 |
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