MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Jetha mean?
Jetha continues jyeṣṭha, eldest or senior, through northern Indo-Aryan speech. Guru Ram Das was known by the childhood name Jetha before becoming the fourth Sikh Guru.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
जेठा
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Jetha in Indian usage
6,693 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling जेठा.
Mostly recorded for boys (98%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 136 records (2%).
- Recorded as male: 6,557 records (98%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 479 |
| 1950s | 1,047 |
| 1960s | 1,525 |
| 1970s | 1,375 |
| 1980s | 1,151 |
| 1990s | 935 |
| Other decades | 181 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 4,222 |
| Jharkhand | 1,913 |
| Bihar | 558 |
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, jyeṣṭha, p. 426,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.