Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Sanskrit.
Shakuntala’s family of names
In English usage, Shakuntala has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form शकुंतला.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Shakuntala
- Shakuntala DeviIndian writer and mental calculator (1929-2013)
- Shakuntala KarandikarIndian author1931–2018
- Shakuntala MajumdarNari shakti puraskar winnerborn 1964
- Shakuntala DeviIndian politician1931–2022
- Shakuntala BhagatIndian civil engineer (1933-2012)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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