MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Chita mean?
Chita is a Sanskrit and Hindi word for a funeral pile. Its root concerns heaping or arranging, and the dictionary also records the broader sense of a heap or multitude.
Pronunciation
IAST: citā
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
चिता
Letter-by-letter: citā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Chita in Indian usage
6,068 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (91.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 5,568 records (91.8%).
- Recorded as male: 500 records (8.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 431 |
| 1960s | 953 |
| 1970s | 1,559 |
| 1980s | 1,664 |
| 1990s | 1,148 |
| Other decades | 313 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,356 |
| Bihar | 1,035 |
| Delhi | 958 |
| Jharkhand | 570 |
| Odisha | 417 |
| Assam | 262 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 178 |
| Maharashtra | 108 |
| Other states | 184 |
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, citā, p. 394,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.