MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Smita mean?
Smita uses the Sanskrit adjective for smiling in a feminine name. The corresponding noun denotes a smile or gentle laugh. Sanskrit poets also apply the adjective to an opening flower, giving it a blossoming image.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
स्मिता
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Smita in Indian usage
33,230 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 32,984 records (99.3%).
- Recorded as male: 246 records (0.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 680 |
| 1960s | 1,906 |
| 1970s | 6,111 |
| 1980s | 15,029 |
| 1990s | 9,235 |
| Other decades | 269 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 8,937 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 7,265 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 5,865 |
| Jharkhand | 2,207 |
| Goa | 1,849 |
| Delhi | 1,606 |
| Rajasthan | 1,136 |
| Karnataka | 995 |
| Odisha | 949 |
| Maharashtra | 630 |
| Uttarakhand | 499 |
| Haryana | 302 |
| Assam | 277 |
| Tripura | 180 |
| Other states | 533 |
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, smita, p. 1271,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.