MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Punit mean?
Punīta is a Sanskrit participle from the purifying root pū. Hindi punit retains the completed-action sense, while Pavitra is a related but differently formed purity word.
Pronunciation
IAST: punīta
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पुनीत
Letter-by-letter: punīta
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਪੁਨੀਤ
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
पुनित
Letter-by-letter: punita
4,661 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Punit in Indian usage
61,923 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (94.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 3,190 records (5.2%).
- Recorded as male: 58,733 records (94.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 292 |
| 1940s | 767 |
| 1950s | 1,271 |
| 1960s | 2,525 |
| 1970s | 7,758 |
| 1980s | 24,914 |
| 1990s | 24,273 |
| Other decades | 123 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 25,160 |
| Bihar | 8,102 |
| Haryana | 7,108 |
| Punjab | 6,196 |
| Rajasthan | 4,679 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 4,029 |
| Jharkhand | 2,808 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,472 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,421 |
| Chandigarh | 558 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 195 |
| Other states | 195 |
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, punīta, p. 640,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.