MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Rohit mean?
Sanskrit rohita describes a red or reddish colour. Poetic uses include the reddish appearance of the rising sun.
Pronunciation
IAST: rohita
Meaning themes
colourdawn
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
रोहित
Letter-by-letter: rohita
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਰੋਹਿਤ
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
रोहीत
Letter-by-letter: rohīta
11,063 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Rohit in Indian usage
421,210 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (95.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 18,442 records (4.4%).
- Recorded as male: 402,768 records (95.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 741 |
| 1940s | 2,501 |
| 1950s | 5,366 |
| 1960s | 10,849 |
| 1970s | 27,202 |
| 1980s | 114,543 |
| 1990s | 259,447 |
| Other decades | 561 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 153,237 |
| Bihar | 73,909 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 42,171 |
| Gujarat | 33,309 |
| Haryana | 25,270 |
| Jharkhand | 21,954 |
| Rajasthan | 20,046 |
| Punjab | 18,982 |
| Uttarakhand | 9,928 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 7,848 |
| Delhi | 7,551 |
| Chandigarh | 1,452 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 1,103 |
| Goa | 885 |
| Kerala | 844 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 724 |
| Maharashtra | 511 |
| Meghalaya | 280 |
| Assam | 200 |
| Sikkim | 183 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 171 |
| Odisha | 138 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 121 |
| Manipur | 102 |
| Tripura | 100 |
| Other states | 191 |
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
- Behind the Name: Rohit ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Wiktionary: Rohit ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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