MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shantu mean?
Shantu is a short form used for Shantanu, the Kuru king of the Mahabharata who is the father of Bhishma and husband of Ganga and Satyavati. It also sounds the same as shant, "calm", which is the more ordinary Hindi word for peaceful.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शान्तु
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
शांतु
Letter-by-letter: śāṃtu
383 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shantu in Indian usage
512 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling शान्तु.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 104 records (20.3%).
- Recorded as male: 408 records (79.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1980s | 248 |
| Other decades | 264 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 512 |
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, śaṃtanu, p. 1054,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, śānta, p. 1064,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.