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Punitha name meaning

“purified; cleaned”

Letters
7
Syllables
3
First letter
P
Origin
Sanskrit · Tamil
Category
Indian Names
Gender
♀ Girl
Peak 1980s: 12.5%
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–
1980s12.5%
1990s6.6%
2000s–
2010s–

Indian Names: PMeaning puritySanskrit origin

Punitha is a female name, the feminine form of Punit from Sanskrit punīta meaning 'purified'.

What does Punitha mean?

Purified; cleaned

In Malay: suci; dibersihkan

#Purity

Sources (2)

About the name Punitha

Punitha is a Tamil-style spelling of Punita, the feminine form of Punit, from Sanskrit punīta meaning 'cleaned, purified'. The Tamil word puṉitam (புனிதம்) 'holiness, purity' comes from the same Sanskrit word. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1980s with 885 baby girls.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginSanskrit, Tamil
SyllablesPu-ni-tha
First letterIndian Names starting with P

Punitha 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
Girl: 885 · 12.5%
1990s
Girl: 393 · 6.6%
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Punitha 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)

Sources

  1. Behind the Name: Punit · behindthename.com · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: புனிதம் · en.wiktionary.org · origin

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