Kanta
Kanta is an Indian, Bengali, and Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:Kanta Chiba, Japanese football player Kanta Gupta (1938–2016), Indian mathematician Kanta Higashionna, Japanese rugby union player Kanta Ina, Japanese actor Kanta Nalawade, Indian politician from Maharashtra Kanta Rao (1923–2009), Indian film actor and producer from Telugu cinema Kanta Saroop Krishen…
- Hindi
- Bengali
Meaning & Origin of Kanta
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Kanta is an Indian, Bengali, and Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:Kanta Chiba, Japanese football player Kanta Gupta (1938–2016), Indian mathematician Kanta Higashionna, Japanese rugby union player Kanta Ina, Japanese actor Kanta Nalawade, Indian politician from Maharashtra Kanta Rao (1923–2009), Indian film actor and producer from Telugu cinema Kanta Saroop Krishen…
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Hindi
- Bengali
The Story of Kanta
Kanta first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1977, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2008: 10 births, good for #7,697 nationwide. About 45% of every Kanta on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Kanta last appeared in the published SSA data in 2016, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 49 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
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About the name Kanta
Kanta is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1977 and has accumulated 49 births in the dataset. Kanta's peak popularity came in 2008 when it ranked #7,697. Use the chart and map above to compare Kanta's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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