MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Saritha mean?
The Sanskrit noun sarit denotes a river or stream. Saritha belongs to this water vocabulary, whose root sṛ expresses flowing or movement.
Pronunciation
IAST: saritā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सरिता
Letter-by-letter: saritā
Conventional spelling
Telugu
సరిత
Conventional spelling
Tamil
சரிதா
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
സരിത
Conventional spelling
Kannada
ಸರಿತಾ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Saritha in Indian usage
26,415 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 26,266 records (99.4%).
- Recorded as male: 149 records (0.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1970s | 4,398 |
| 1980s | 16,737 |
| 1990s | 5,020 |
| Other decades | 260 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 20,366 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 5,477 |
| Puducherry | 262 |
| Odisha | 130 |
| Other states | 180 |
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
- Given-name entry (Wikidata): Saritha ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Given-name spelling
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, sarit, p. 1182,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.