MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Nitish mean?
Nīti concerns wise conduct, guidance and policy, while īśa denotes lordship. Nitish brings an ethical concept into a traditional Sanskrit-style compound.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
नितीश
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
नितिश
Letter-by-letter: nitiśa
13,607 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
नीतीश
Letter-by-letter: nītīśa
9,425 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
नीतिश
Letter-by-letter: nītiśa
8,757 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Nitish in Indian usage
38,419 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling नितीश.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 348 records (0.9%).
- Recorded as male: 38,071 records (99.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1980s | 5,296 |
| 1990s | 32,435 |
| Other decades | 688 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 31,260 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,451 |
| Jharkhand | 1,665 |
| Haryana | 959 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 295 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 258 |
| Rajasthan | 254 |
| Other states | 277 |
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