MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Vanita mean?
Vanitā is a complete Sanskrit noun for a woman or beloved wife. Its formation belongs to the language of affection and being loved.
Pronunciation
IAST: vanitā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
वनिता
Letter-by-letter: vanitā
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਵਨੀਤਾ
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
वनीता
Letter-by-letter: vanītā
4,229 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Vanita in Indian usage
24,246 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 24,136 records (99.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 849 |
| 1960s | 2,455 |
| 1970s | 5,529 |
| 1980s | 9,363 |
| 1990s | 5,764 |
| Other decades | 286 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 3,091 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 2,854 |
| Karnataka | 2,571 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,448 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 2,331 |
| Punjab | 2,272 |
| Haryana | 1,492 |
| Kerala | 1,160 |
| Maharashtra | 1,154 |
| Puducherry | 1,128 |
| Goa | 1,036 |
| Bihar | 823 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 729 |
| Delhi | 325 |
| Uttarakhand | 211 |
| Jharkhand | 206 |
| Chandigarh | 190 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 110 |
| Other states | 115 |
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, vanitā, p. 918,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.