MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Ritu mean?
Ritu represents Sanskrit ṛtu, a season or appointed time. The written रितु is a vernacular name spelling, while ऋतु preserves the Sanskrit vowel.
Pronunciation
IAST: ritu
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
रितु
Letter-by-letter: ritu
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਰੀਤੂ
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
रीतू
Letter-by-letter: rītū
45,173 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
ऋतु
Letter-by-letter: ṛtu
16,198 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
रीतु
Letter-by-letter: rītu
15,527 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
रितू
Letter-by-letter: ritū
8,630 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
ऋतू
Letter-by-letter: ṛtū
3,423 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Ritu in Indian usage
81,413 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (97%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 79,009 records (97%).
- Recorded as male: 2,404 records (3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 464 |
| 1960s | 2,043 |
| 1970s | 12,838 |
| 1980s | 33,514 |
| 1990s | 32,279 |
| Other decades | 275 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 27,792 |
| Punjab | 12,560 |
| Haryana | 9,742 |
| Bihar | 8,169 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 7,311 |
| Delhi | 4,672 |
| Rajasthan | 3,149 |
| Jharkhand | 2,262 |
| Uttarakhand | 2,241 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,664 |
| Kerala | 473 |
| Chandigarh | 360 |
| Odisha | 335 |
| Meghalaya | 133 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 114 |
| Other states | 436 |
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, ṛtu, p. 224,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.