MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Priti mean?
Priti comes from the Sanskrit noun prīti, affection or delight. The word belongs to the prī root family concerned with pleasing and loving.
Pronunciation
IAST: prīti
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
प्रीति
Letter-by-letter: prīti
Conventional spelling
Odia
ପ୍ରୀତି
Conventional spelling
Odia
ପ୍ରିତି
1,540 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Priti in Indian usage
23,438 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (97.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 22,771 records (97.2%).
- Recorded as male: 667 records (2.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 120 |
| 1960s | 374 |
| 1970s | 2,080 |
| 1980s | 9,576 |
| 1990s | 11,180 |
| Other decades | 108 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 6,220 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 5,811 |
| Karnataka | 2,898 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,461 |
| Rajasthan | 2,358 |
| Odisha | 1,640 |
| Jharkhand | 786 |
| Uttarakhand | 472 |
| Assam | 238 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 107 |
| Other states | 447 |
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.