MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Surta mean?
In northern vernacular devotional speech, surat or surta refers to attention and remembrance. Sanskrit Suratā is also recorded as a feminine name, including that of an apsara, giving a separate literary reading.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सुरता
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
सूरता
Letter-by-letter: sūratā
1,950 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Surta in Indian usage
18,351 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 14,031 records (76.5%).
- Recorded as male: 4,320 records (23.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 812 |
| 1940s | 1,422 |
| 1950s | 1,729 |
| 1960s | 2,510 |
| 1970s | 2,885 |
| 1980s | 4,803 |
| 1990s | 3,899 |
| Other decades | 291 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 12,338 |
| Haryana | 1,760 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,452 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,449 |
| Punjab | 983 |
| Uttarakhand | 140 |
| Other states | 229 |
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, suratā, p. 1232,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.