MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Santhosh mean?
Contentment is the central sense of Sanskrit santoṣa, continued in the name Santhosh. The word also denotes satisfaction with what one has in Indian philosophical vocabulary.
Pronunciation
IAST: santoṣa
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
संतोष
Letter-by-letter: santoṣa
Conventional spelling
Other spellings
- Santosh
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Santhosh in Indian usage
1,146,750 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 293,544 records (25.6%).
- Recorded as male: 853,206 records (74.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 1,382 |
| 1930s | 2,581 |
| 1940s | 12,794 |
| 1950s | 39,795 |
| 1960s | 107,650 |
| 1970s | 287,768 |
| 1980s | 450,755 |
| 1990s | 243,808 |
| Other decades | 217 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 300,488 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 230,349 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 190,938 |
| Rajasthan | 148,035 |
| Jharkhand | 71,434 |
| Kerala | 56,945 |
| Delhi | 54,161 |
| Haryana | 47,476 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 22,422 |
| Uttarakhand | 6,896 |
| Goa | 4,233 |
| Maharashtra | 3,936 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 3,439 |
| Chandigarh | 1,927 |
| Sikkim | 940 |
| Puducherry | 550 |
| Meghalaya | 532 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 432 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 413 |
| Manipur | 386 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 290 |
| Nagaland | 218 |
| Daman and Diu | 148 |
| Other states | 162 |
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, saṃtoṣa, p. 1142,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: संतोष ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Behind the Name: Santhosh ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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