MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shakuntala mean?
Śakuntalā is associated with śakunta, bird, and names the heroine of the Shakuntala story and mother of Bharata. Kalidasa's Abhijnanashakuntalam gives the story a major dramatic treatment.
Pronunciation
IAST: śakuntalā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शकुन्तला
Letter-by-letter: śakuntalā
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
शकुंतला
Letter-by-letter: śakuṃtalā
89,633 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
शकुनतला
Letter-by-letter: śakunatalā
5,112 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shakuntala in Indian usage
451,427 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 449,506 records (99.6%).
- Recorded as male: 1,921 records (0.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 1,694 |
| 1930s | 9,253 |
| 1940s | 32,673 |
| 1950s | 69,333 |
| 1960s | 117,958 |
| 1970s | 106,196 |
| 1980s | 81,452 |
| 1990s | 32,717 |
| Other decades | 151 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 219,658 |
| Bihar | 47,982 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 46,819 |
| Odisha | 42,473 |
| Rajasthan | 38,034 |
| Jharkhand | 20,196 |
| Uttarakhand | 12,885 |
| Haryana | 12,560 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 4,339 |
| Delhi | 1,977 |
| Assam | 1,485 |
| Goa | 916 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 809 |
| Tripura | 651 |
| Chandigarh | 426 |
| Other states | 217 |
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
- Wikipedia: Shakuntala ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Wiktionary: शकुन्त ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Behind the Name: Shakuntala ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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