MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Santosha mean?
Santosha is a feminine name formed from Sanskrit santosha, “contentment”. The word also names the practice of contentment discussed in Indian ethical and yogic writing.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
संतोषा
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Santosha in Indian usage
2,070 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling संतोषा.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 317 |
| 1970s | 609 |
| 1980s | 831 |
| Other decades | 313 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,070 |
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.