MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sunita mean?
Its Sanskrit formation joins su, good, with nīta, led. The feminine final ā distinguishes Sunita from the masculine Sunīt.
Pronunciation
IAST: sunītā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सुनीता
Letter-by-letter: sunītā
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
सुनिता
Letter-by-letter: sunitā
398,404 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Other spellings
- Suneeta
- Sunitha
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sunita in Indian usage
2,522,569 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: 2,513,199 records (99.6%).
- Recorded as male: 9,370 records (0.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1910s | 209 |
| 1920s | 1,870 |
| 1930s | 2,337 |
| 1940s | 8,011 |
| 1950s | 38,447 |
| 1960s | 250,515 |
| 1970s | 722,035 |
| 1980s | 998,047 |
| 1990s | 500,978 |
| 2000s | 120 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 746,667 |
| Bihar | 447,018 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 316,209 |
| Rajasthan | 240,994 |
| Haryana | 193,911 |
| Jharkhand | 134,209 |
| Odisha | 79,777 |
| Punjab | 75,626 |
| Delhi | 69,475 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 48,897 |
| Uttarakhand | 45,473 |
| Kerala | 43,940 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 31,036 |
| Karnataka | 25,226 |
| Chandigarh | 5,255 |
| Maharashtra | 4,426 |
| Goa | 3,726 |
| Assam | 3,717 |
| Meghalaya | 1,632 |
| Sikkim | 1,269 |
| Tripura | 986 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 813 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 762 |
| Manipur | 583 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 277 |
| Nagaland | 266 |
| Puducherry | 165 |
| Daman and Diu | 128 |
| Other states | 106 |
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, sunīta, p. 1226,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.