MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shital mean?
Shital comes from Sanskrit shitala, an adjective for something cool or cooling. Classical usage extends the word to calmness and relief from painful feeling.
Pronunciation
IAST: śītala
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शीतल
Letter-by-letter: śītala
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
शितल
Letter-by-letter: śitala
3,223 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shital in Indian usage
1,497 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (89.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,338 records (89.4%).
- Recorded as male: 159 records (10.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 181 |
| 1970s | 317 |
| 1980s | 532 |
| 1990s | 299 |
| Other decades | 168 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Goa | 746 |
| Delhi | 559 |
| Other states | 192 |
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, śītala, p. 1078,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.