MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Preeti mean?
Love or affectionate pleasure is expressed by the Sanskrit noun prīti. The Sanskrit noun is formed from the root prī, to please or gladden.
Pronunciation
IAST: prīti
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
प्रीति
Letter-by-letter: prīti
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਪ੍ਰੀਤੀ
Conventional spelling
Bengali
প্রীতি
Conventional spelling
Odia
ପ୍ରୀତି
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
प्रीती
Letter-by-letter: prītī
221,811 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
प्रिती
Letter-by-letter: pritī
37,167 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
प्रिति
Letter-by-letter: priti
17,642 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Odia
ପ୍ରିତୀ
604 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Preeti in Indian usage
550,113 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (98.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 540,573 records (98.3%).
- Recorded as male: 9,540 records (1.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 500 |
| 1940s | 1,469 |
| 1950s | 3,160 |
| 1960s | 10,073 |
| 1970s | 43,843 |
| 1980s | 195,768 |
| 1990s | 294,759 |
| Other decades | 541 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 230,964 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 94,509 |
| Bihar | 80,887 |
| Haryana | 29,407 |
| Rajasthan | 26,271 |
| Delhi | 21,316 |
| Jharkhand | 19,274 |
| Punjab | 13,895 |
| Uttarakhand | 12,293 |
| Kerala | 7,172 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 4,099 |
| Odisha | 2,020 |
| Tripura | 1,337 |
| Assam | 1,321 |
| Chandigarh | 1,243 |
| Goa | 1,230 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 1,141 |
| Maharashtra | 692 |
| Puducherry | 254 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 168 |
| Meghalaya | 146 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 102 |
| Other states | 372 |
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, prīti, p. 711,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.