Entry № 5223 · Sanskrit origin

Kanti Kanti — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KAHN-tee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Beauty / radiance"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "beauty / radiance".

Kanti is from the Sanskrit Kānti.

Beauty / radiance — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

कान्ति
Transliteration
Kānti
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɑːn.ti /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kanti stands.

Kanti does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Kantis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Sanskrit alaṅkāra-śāstra
Sanskrit beauty + alaṅkāra-śāstra ornamental-poetic theory + Kalidasa Sanskrit poetic works + Mahabharata + Ramayana beauty descriptions
Sanskrit aesthetics

Names connected to Kanti.

The number behind Kanti.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kanti reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.