MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sital mean?
Sital is the vernacular name Shital, from Sanskrit shitala, cool or cooling. The adjective also has a figurative sense of calmness and gentleness.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शीतल
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
सीतल
Letter-by-letter: sītala
1,782 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sital in Indian usage
1,782 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling सीतल.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 912 records (51.2%).
- Recorded as male: 870 records (48.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 252 |
| 1970s | 255 |
| 1980s | 633 |
| 1990s | 403 |
| Other decades | 239 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 854 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 475 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 272 |
| Other states | 181 |
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.