MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Jata mean?
Jata is the Sanskrit word for hair twisted into matted locks. The image is especially connected with Shiva and with ascetics who wear their hair in this manner.
Pronunciation
IAST: jaṭā
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
जटा
Letter-by-letter: jaṭā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Jata in Indian usage
6,528 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (96.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 202 records (3.1%).
- Recorded as male: 6,326 records (96.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 507 |
| 1950s | 1,053 |
| 1960s | 1,795 |
| 1970s | 1,605 |
| 1980s | 968 |
| 1990s | 420 |
| Other decades | 180 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,133 |
| Bihar | 1,874 |
| Punjab | 1,784 |
| Jharkhand | 354 |
| Rajasthan | 216 |
| Other states | 167 |
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, jaṭā, p. 409,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.