MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Santo mean?
Santo is a feminine familiar form of Santosh, contentment. The short o ending is used in northern women's names and keeps the abstract base as an affectionate address.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
संतो
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Santo in Indian usage
6,372 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling संतो.
Mostly recorded for girls (97.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 6,203 records (97.3%).
- Recorded as male: 169 records (2.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 584 |
| 1950s | 1,412 |
| 1960s | 1,827 |
| 1970s | 1,270 |
| 1980s | 858 |
| Other decades | 421 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,101 |
| Rajasthan | 1,902 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,198 |
| Other states | 1,171 |
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)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.