MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shakunti mean?
Shakunti belongs to the śakunta group of words for birds and can shorten Shakuntala. In Kalidasa's drama, Shakuntala is the forest-raised heroine who marries King Dushyanta.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शकुन्ती
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shakunti in Indian usage
5,484 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling शकुन्ती.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 410 |
| 1950s | 929 |
| 1960s | 1,769 |
| 1970s | 1,450 |
| 1980s | 745 |
| Other decades | 181 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 4,539 |
| Jharkhand | 802 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 143 |
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, śakunti, p. 1046,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, śakuntalā, p. 1046,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.