MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Nivedita mean?
Nivedita is the feminine form of the Sanskrit participle nivedita, presented or offered. In devotional use, the act of offering gives the name its familiar sense of dedication.
Pronunciation
IAST: niveditā
Meaning themes
dedication
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
निवेदिता
Letter-by-letter: niveditā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Nivedita in Indian usage
8,040 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (98.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 7,896 records (98.2%).
- Recorded as male: 144 records (1.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 512 |
| 1970s | 1,307 |
| 1980s | 3,072 |
| 1990s | 3,008 |
| Other decades | 141 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,403 |
| Bihar | 1,819 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,002 |
| Jharkhand | 970 |
| Rajasthan | 487 |
| Karnataka | 469 |
| Haryana | 254 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 234 |
| Uttarakhand | 206 |
| Other states | 196 |
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, nivedita, p. 559,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.