MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sumita mean?
Su adds the sense of goodness to mita, measured. Sumita is the feminine name formed from this Sanskrit descriptive combination.
Pronunciation
IAST: sumitā
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सुमिता
Letter-by-letter: sumitā
Conventional spelling
Bengali
সুমিতা
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
सुमीता
Letter-by-letter: sumītā
5,784 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sumita in Indian usage
37,053 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (98.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 36,537 records (98.6%).
- Recorded as male: 516 records (1.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 201 |
| 1940s | 643 |
| 1950s | 1,436 |
| 1960s | 4,118 |
| 1970s | 8,649 |
| 1980s | 13,005 |
| 1990s | 8,865 |
| Other decades | 136 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 6,988 |
| Jharkhand | 6,652 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 5,767 |
| Delhi | 4,225 |
| Rajasthan | 2,543 |
| Tripura | 2,325 |
| Odisha | 2,121 |
| Assam | 1,853 |
| Haryana | 1,331 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,244 |
| Uttarakhand | 425 |
| Goa | 343 |
| Meghalaya | 219 |
| Karnataka | 178 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 142 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 139 |
| Manipur | 119 |
| Other states | 439 |
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, sumita, p. 1231,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.