MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Tetari mean?
A daughter born after three sons is called tetari in regional birth-order vocabulary. The Hindi word tetar describes this sequence of children in traditional household vocabulary.
Pronunciation
IAST: tetarī
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
तेतरी
Letter-by-letter: tetarī
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Tetari in Indian usage
112,720 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: 112,223 records (99.6%).
- Recorded as male: 497 records (0.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 1,464 |
| 1930s | 5,762 |
| 1940s | 11,354 |
| 1950s | 17,490 |
| 1960s | 30,372 |
| 1970s | 25,108 |
| 1980s | 15,522 |
| 1990s | 5,498 |
| Other decades | 150 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 76,270 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 20,789 |
| Jharkhand | 15,315 |
| Other states | 346 |
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
- Hindwi dictionary: Tetari ↗ (opens in a new tab)
A daughter born after three sons; not simply a third-born child.