MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Suniti mean?
Suniti joins su, meaning good, with niti, conduct or guidance. In the Puranic story of Dhruva, Suniti is his mother and the wife of King Uttanapada. Dhruva becomes the devoted child whose name is connected with the pole star.
Pronunciation
IAST: sunīti
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सुनीति
Letter-by-letter: sunīti
Conventional spelling
Bengali
সুনীতি
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Suniti in Indian usage
3,935 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (97.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 3,825 records (97.2%).
- Recorded as male: 110 records (2.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 372 |
| 1950s | 591 |
| 1960s | 818 |
| 1970s | 768 |
| 1980s | 710 |
| 1990s | 502 |
| Other decades | 174 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Tripura | 1,073 |
| Bihar | 596 |
| Assam | 502 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 494 |
| Kerala | 402 |
| Jharkhand | 290 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 189 |
| Odisha | 148 |
| Other states | 241 |
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, sunīti, p. 1226,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.