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Kirthana name meaning

“praise; recitation and celebration”

Letters
8
Syllables
3
First letter
K
Origin
Sanskrit
Category
Indian Names
Gender
♀ Girl
Peak 2000s: 8.3%
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–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s8.3%
2010s7.4%

Indian Names: KSanskrit origin

Kirthana is an Indian girl's name from Sanskrit kīrtana, meaning 'praise'.

What does Kirthana mean?

Praise; recitation and celebration

In Malay: pujian; penyebutan dan pemujian

Sources (2)

About the name Kirthana

Kirthana is an Indian female name matching Sanskrit kīrtana, a word meaning 'praise' or 'recitation'; in Hindi it is praise of deities and devotional singing. According to JPN, it peaked in the 2000s with 311 baby girls.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginSanskrit
SyllablesKir-tha-na
First letterIndian Names starting with K

Kirthana 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
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
Girl: 311 · 8.3%
2010s
Girl: 40 · 7.4%
People registered with Kirthana 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. Sanskrit dictionaries: कीर्तन (kīrtana) · kosha.sanskrit.today · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: कीर्तन · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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