Savit

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Savitri in IN India, US United States, GY Guyana and 17 more, Sabitri in BD Bangladesh, NP Nepal, FI Finland and 2 more, Sawitree in TH Thailand, SE Sweden and Савитри in RU Russia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Savit is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Russian given name54 records spelled Savit7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, India, Ukraine

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Савит, Савіт

• Bulgarian given name20 records spelled Savit8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Kazakhstan

  Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian

  Also written Савит, Šavît

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Savit is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In dtp, to hang, hook onto, entangle

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• In dtp, hook onto, entangle

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 75 years between 1918–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Gavriel SavitAmerican writer
• Eli SavitUSAmerican lawyer

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 144 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Savit?

We estimate roughly 2.1 thousand people bear Savit (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.

In which country does Savit have the most bearers?

Savit is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled savitri.

Where is Savit most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Savit is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 845 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.

How common is Savit compared with other names?

In India, Savit is the 71st most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.

Is Savit a male or female name?

Savit is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.