MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Banita mean?
Banita is an eastern Indian form of Sanskrit vanitā, a woman or beloved woman. The change of the initial sound is conventional in Odia and Bengali, where Banita is an established feminine name.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बनिता
Conventional spelling
Odia
ବନିତା
Conventional spelling
Bengali
বনিতা
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Banita in Indian usage
31,635 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 31,529 records (99.7%).
- Recorded as male: 106 records (0.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 191 |
| 1950s | 657 |
| 1960s | 2,008 |
| 1970s | 5,734 |
| 1980s | 12,776 |
| 1990s | 10,143 |
| Other decades | 126 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 27,459 |
| Bihar | 822 |
| Haryana | 593 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 463 |
| Rajasthan | 413 |
| Jharkhand | 406 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 364 |
| Assam | 356 |
| Uttarakhand | 236 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 219 |
| Tripura | 195 |
| Other states | 109 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, vanitā, p. 918,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.