MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sruti mean?
Sanskrit śruti denotes hearing or listening. It also names sacred knowledge passed down through oral transmission, especially the Vedic texts. In music, Sruti refers to a fine pitch interval.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
श्रुति
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sruti in Indian usage
34,078 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (98.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 33,627 records (98.7%).
- Recorded as male: 451 records (1.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 121 |
| 1960s | 355 |
| 1970s | 1,365 |
| 1980s | 9,766 |
| 1990s | 22,362 |
| Other decades | 109 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 13,085 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 5,717 |
| Bihar | 4,025 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,991 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 2,068 |
| Rajasthan | 1,539 |
| Jharkhand | 1,094 |
| Goa | 876 |
| Haryana | 869 |
| Uttarakhand | 650 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 377 |
| Delhi | 328 |
| Odisha | 203 |
| Chandigarh | 100 |
| Other states | 156 |
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, śruti, p. 1101,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.