MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sarita mean?
Sarit is a Sanskrit noun for a river or stream. Its root sṛ means to flow or move, giving Sarita its water-related formation.
Pronunciation
IAST: saritā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सरिता
Letter-by-letter: saritā
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਸਰਿਤਾ
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
सरीता
Letter-by-letter: sarītā
87,713 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sarita in Indian usage
743,514 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 740,026 records (99.5%).
- Recorded as male: 3,488 records (0.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 835 |
| 1930s | 574 |
| 1940s | 2,031 |
| 1950s | 9,327 |
| 1960s | 46,251 |
| 1970s | 145,933 |
| 1980s | 315,091 |
| 1990s | 223,286 |
| Other decades | 186 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 252,452 |
| Bihar | 202,839 |
| Jharkhand | 73,812 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 70,553 |
| Rajasthan | 48,784 |
| Haryana | 26,267 |
| Uttarakhand | 18,827 |
| Odisha | 13,677 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 8,691 |
| Delhi | 8,512 |
| Punjab | 5,705 |
| Karnataka | 3,856 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 2,913 |
| Goa | 1,935 |
| Chandigarh | 1,128 |
| Sikkim | 1,072 |
| Maharashtra | 764 |
| Manipur | 355 |
| Meghalaya | 353 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 269 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 165 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 160 |
| Assam | 118 |
| Other states | 307 |
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
- Wiktionary: सरिता ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.