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Pavitra name meaning

“pure; holy”

Also spelled Pavithra

Letters
7
Syllables
3
First letter
P
Origin
Sanskrit
Category
Indian Names
Gender
♀ Girl
Peak 2000s: 12.2%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Indian table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s–
1980s–
1990s9.9%
2000s12.2%
2010s–

Indian Names: PMeaning puritySanskrit origin

Pavitra is a female name from Sanskrit meaning 'pure' or 'holy'.

What does Pavitra mean?

Pure; holy

In Malay: suci; sakral

#Purity

Sources (1)

About the name Pavitra

Pavitra is a Sanskrit and Hindi word meaning pure or holy, from pava 'purification' and the root pū 'to purify'. Pavithra is the common Malaysian spelling. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1990s with 592 baby girls.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginSanskrit
SyllablesPa-vit-ra
First letterIndian Names starting with P

Pavitra in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
Girl: 592 · 9.9%
2000s
Girl: 457 · 12.2%
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Pavitra as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Indian table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Other spellings in the JPN data: Pavithra (1990s 466 girl, 2000s 321 girl)

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: पवित्र · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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