MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sumitra mean?
Sumitrā joins su and mitra and names the Ramayana queen who is the mother of Lakshmana and Shatrughna. Sumitra's sons are Rama's younger brothers in the epic. Sumitra is one of King Dasharatha's queens in the Ramayana.
Pronunciation
IAST: sumitrā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सुमित्रा
Letter-by-letter: sumitrā
Conventional spelling
Bengali
সুমিত্রা
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
सुमित्र
Letter-by-letter: sumitra
31,631 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
सुमीत्रा
Letter-by-letter: sumītrā
10,096 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sumitra in Indian usage
581,643 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 579,121 records (99.6%).
- Recorded as male: 2,522 records (0.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 2,781 |
| 1930s | 11,959 |
| 1940s | 33,280 |
| 1950s | 70,294 |
| 1960s | 127,730 |
| 1970s | 128,759 |
| 1980s | 135,943 |
| 1990s | 70,660 |
| Other decades | 237 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 138,494 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 114,587 |
| Rajasthan | 82,785 |
| Odisha | 66,013 |
| Jharkhand | 48,682 |
| Haryana | 41,721 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 38,618 |
| Karnataka | 19,131 |
| Uttarakhand | 9,750 |
| Assam | 6,068 |
| Tripura | 5,801 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,754 |
| Goa | 1,602 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 1,566 |
| Delhi | 1,006 |
| Maharashtra | 776 |
| Meghalaya | 668 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 571 |
| Chandigarh | 556 |
| Sikkim | 510 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 346 |
| Manipur | 130 |
| Nagaland | 109 |
| Punjab | 102 |
| Other states | 297 |
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
- Behind the Name: Sumitra ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Wiktionary: सुमित्रा ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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