MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Nitu mean?
Nita and Neeti both supply familiar expansions of Nitu. Sanskrit nīti means conduct or policy, but the tū ending can also form an independent call name.
Pronunciation
IAST: nītū
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
नीतू
Letter-by-letter: nītū
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਨੀਤੂ
Conventional spelling
Odia
ନିତୁ
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
नीतु
Letter-by-letter: nītu
63,335 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
नितु
Letter-by-letter: nitu
28,119 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
नितू
Letter-by-letter: nitū
7,381 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Gurmukhi
ਨੀਤੁ
2,777 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Gurmukhi
ਨੀਟੂ
2,259 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Nitu in Indian usage
449,259 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (96.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 432,235 records (96.2%).
- Recorded as male: 17,024 records (3.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 294 |
| 1940s | 279 |
| 1950s | 741 |
| 1960s | 4,332 |
| 1970s | 50,666 |
| 1980s | 200,586 |
| 1990s | 192,179 |
| Other decades | 182 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 145,176 |
| Bihar | 127,243 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 49,494 |
| Rajasthan | 35,331 |
| Kerala | 26,408 |
| Haryana | 21,709 |
| Jharkhand | 17,597 |
| Punjab | 13,425 |
| Uttarakhand | 7,796 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,349 |
| Odisha | 1,196 |
| Assam | 968 |
| Chandigarh | 913 |
| Tripura | 249 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 114 |
| Other states | 291 |
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, nīti, p. 565,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.