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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Shweta

White; bright

Shweta means “White; bright”.

Origin language
Sanskrit
First letter
S
Historical records
9,792

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Shweta mean?

Shveta is the feminine form of the Sanskrit adjective for white or bright. The word appears widely in classical descriptions of flowers, garments and other light-coloured things.

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

श्वेता

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Shweta in Indian usage

9,792 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Shweta: records by birth decade1970s: 1,1321970s1980s: 4,8341980s1990s: 3,6831990sOther decades: 143Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1970s1,132
1980s4,834
1990s3,683
Other decades143

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Delhi8,711
Goa630
Andhra Pradesh288
Other states163
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, śveta, p. 1106,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  3. Wiktionary: श्वेता ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    meaning

  4. Wiktionary: श्वेत ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    meaning

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