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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Sarathi

Charioteer; guide

Sarathi means “Charioteer; guide”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Hindi
First letter
S
Historical records
3,191

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Sarathi mean?

Sarathi is the Sanskrit word for a charioteer and, by extension, a guide or helper. Krishna serves as Arjuna's charioteer in the Mahabharata, providing a familiar epic image for the name.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

सारथी

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Sarathi in Indian usage

3,191 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

These totals and margins describe the spelling सारथी.

Mostly recorded for girls (96.7%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 3,085 records (96.7%).
  • Recorded as male: 106 records (3.3%).

By birth decade

Sarathi: records by birth decade1940s: 1391940s1950s: 3591950s1960s: 6161960s1970s: 8331970s1980s: 7491980s1990s: 4951990s
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1940s139
1950s359
1960s616
1970s833
1980s749
1990s495

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Other states3,191
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, sārathi, p. 1208,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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