MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shakti mean?
Shakti is Sanskrit for power, ability, or energy. Religious texts personify a deity’s active power as a goddess. In Sanskrit language theory, śakti also denotes a word’s power to convey meaning.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शक्ति
Conventional spelling
Odia
ଶକ୍ତି
Conventional spelling
Bengali
শক্তি
Conventional spelling
Tamil
சக்தி
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
शक्ती
Letter-by-letter: śaktī
760 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shakti in Indian usage
30,511 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (83.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 5,012 records (16.4%).
- Recorded as male: 25,499 records (83.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 721 |
| 1950s | 1,506 |
| 1960s | 2,344 |
| 1970s | 3,784 |
| 1980s | 10,821 |
| 1990s | 11,066 |
| Other decades | 269 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 6,801 |
| Rajasthan | 5,023 |
| Bihar | 3,432 |
| Haryana | 2,604 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,524 |
| Jharkhand | 2,397 |
| Odisha | 2,035 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,803 |
| Delhi | 1,383 |
| Uttarakhand | 912 |
| Tripura | 452 |
| Puducherry | 310 |
| Kerala | 274 |
| Assam | 196 |
| Chandigarh | 130 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 101 |
| Other states | 134 |
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, śakti, p. 1044,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.