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Kasturi name meaning

“musk”

Letters
7
Syllables
3
First letter
K
Origin
Sanskrit · Hindi
Category
Indian Names
Gender
♀ Girl
Peak 1990s: 9.7%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Indian table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s–
1980s8.4%
1990s9.7%
2000s–
2010s–

Indian Names: KSanskrit origin

Kasturi is a girl's name from Sanskrit and Hindi kastūrī, meaning 'musk'.

What does Kasturi mean?

Musk

In Malay: kasturi (minyak wangi daripada rusa kasturi)

Sources (2)

About the name Kasturi

Kasturi is a female name from kastūrī, a Sanskrit and Hindi word meaning 'musk', the fragrant substance from the musk deer. The name is used across several Indian languages, including Tamil and Hindi. According to JPN, it peaked in the 1980s with 596 baby girls.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginSanskrit, Hindi
SyllablesKas-tu-ri
First letterIndian Names starting with K
Jawiکستوري

Kasturi in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
Girl: 596 · 8.4%
1990s
Girl: 577 · 9.7%
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Kasturi as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Indian table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Sources

  1. Behind the Name: Kasturi · behindthename.com · origin
  2. Wiktionary: कस्तूरी · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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