MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sathya mean?
Sathya corresponds to Sanskrit satya, truth or true. The same truth element begins Satyanarayana, where it qualifies a name of Vishnu.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Tamil
சத்தியா
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
सत्या
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sathya in Indian usage
53,640 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: 41,423 records (77.2%).
- Recorded as male: 12,217 records (22.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 2,089 |
| 1940s | 6,097 |
| 1950s | 10,229 |
| 1960s | 11,506 |
| 1970s | 9,900 |
| 1980s | 9,071 |
| 1990s | 4,350 |
| Other decades | 398 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Himachal Pradesh | 18,007 |
| Haryana | 9,841 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 6,242 |
| Bihar | 5,684 |
| Odisha | 3,637 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,534 |
| Kerala | 1,712 |
| Jharkhand | 1,267 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 962 |
| Puducherry | 764 |
| Uttarakhand | 667 |
| Chandigarh | 475 |
| Rajasthan | 460 |
| Maharashtra | 158 |
| Other states | 230 |
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, satya, p. 1135,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.