MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Lalit mean?
Lalita is the underlying Sanskrit adjective and also describes grace in the arts, with Lalit the conventional Hindi masculine name form. Lalita is the corresponding feminine graceful or playful adjective.
Pronunciation
IAST: lalita
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
ललित
Letter-by-letter: lalita
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਲਲਿਤ
Conventional spelling
Bengali
ললিত
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
ललीत
Letter-by-letter: lalīta
18,218 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Lalit in Indian usage
200,731 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (97.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 5,800 records (2.9%).
- Recorded as male: 194,931 records (97.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 716 |
| 1940s | 2,532 |
| 1950s | 6,564 |
| 1960s | 16,203 |
| 1970s | 39,032 |
| 1980s | 70,567 |
| 1990s | 64,760 |
| Other decades | 357 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 54,516 |
| Bihar | 33,169 |
| Rajasthan | 29,745 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 17,061 |
| Delhi | 16,263 |
| Haryana | 14,823 |
| Uttarakhand | 14,551 |
| Jharkhand | 6,267 |
| Punjab | 5,047 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 3,853 |
| Assam | 2,036 |
| Tripura | 891 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 629 |
| Chandigarh | 580 |
| Maharashtra | 475 |
| Sikkim | 205 |
| Odisha | 112 |
| Other states | 508 |
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
- Wiktionary: ललित ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.