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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Sumant

Good counsel; thoughtful name

Sumant means “Good counsel; thoughtful name”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Odia
First letter
S
Historical records
21,293

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Sumant mean?

Sumant is conventionally associated with Sumantra, following good counsel. The Ramayana gives Sumantra the role of Dasharatha's minister and charioteer.

Pronunciation

IAST: sumanta

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

सुमंत

Letter-by-letter: sumanta

Conventional spelling

Odia

ସୁମନ୍ତ

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Sumant in Indian usage

21,293 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.

  • Recorded as female: 10,629 records (49.9%).
  • Recorded as male: 10,664 records (50.1%).

By birth decade

Sumant: records by birth decade1960s: 6381960s1970s: 2,0731970s1980s: 13,3191980s1990s: 5,0331990sOther decades: 230Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1960s638
1970s2,073
1980s13,319
1990s5,033
Other decades230

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Other states21,293
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, sumantra, p. 1231,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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