Sunita

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Sunita is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 4th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: 1 probably meaning ‘of good conduct’.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 213◐
  • GYGuyana1 in 1.3K
  • THThailand1 in 11K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈35K ●

across 10 countries

#125 ●

of 16M given names

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
266 ●

3.0M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 329 ◐

Latvia

Spellings & scripts●

SunitaLatin · Hindi●10M records
สุนิตาThai · Thai●7K records
СанитаCyrillic · Russian●739 records
סוניטהHebrew · Hebrew●45 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sanita in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, LV Latvia and 1 more, สุนิตา in TH Thailand, Санита in RU Russia and Sunitha in ZA South Africa.

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●

Sanskrit: 1 probably meaning ‘of good conduct’. 2 ‘giving good guidance, righteous’. Originally a masculine name, now exclusively feminine.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Sunita is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#415,288,2082.9M rec.—230Sunita220
BR Brazil—17,650△394 rec.1 in 12K23KSanita44
TH Thailand—12,9656.7K rec.—#670,221สุนิตา89
US United States—9,66847K rec.1 in 34K9.7KSunita266
GB United Kingdom—6,3344.1K rec.—3Sunita98
LV Latvia#8865,721△378 rec.1 in 3295.7KSanita28
MY Malaysia—3,4571.7K rec.——Sunita44
AU Australia—3,1082.8K rec.—1Sunita83
CA Canada—1,6751.6K rec.—6Sunita65
ES Spain—1,287△221 rec.1 in 39K1.6KSunita21
ID Indonesia—1,211328 rec.—listedSunita64
RU Russia—1,202786 rec.—#2,484Санита73

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi10M67%
  • English4.2M28%
  • Indonesian154K1%
  • Bangla107K1%
  • Vietnamese64K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi9,991,13467%
English4,211,12128%
Indonesian153,6301%
Bangla106,8201%
Vietnamese63,7011%

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◐

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

  • Spanish given name17K records spelled Sunita8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, France, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French

    Also written Sunitä, Sunița

  • a separate given name17K records spelled Sunita4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Sunītā, Sunīta, Sunitā

33 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●

Sunita is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A female given name from Sanskrit of Hindi and Sanskrit origin, meaning: reliable one, one of good character, one with good morals, good behaviour, a daughter of Dharma or goddess of divine bliss.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • a king (P); Siva (N)

    as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

  • In English, Sanskrit; of good conduct

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In German, weibl. Vom. indischer Herkunft (wahr­ scheinlich zu sanskrit. su- »gut« + sanskrit. nlta »geführt, geleitet«, etwa »von gutem

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • good conduct

    as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India

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●

050K100K150K190019201940196019802000101K · 1983

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Sunita in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2017
Yearrecords
189947
19007
19019
19032
19051
19071
19083
19092
19112
19134
191411
19154
191617
191731
191867
191964
1920178
1921102
1922164
1923620
1924168
1925150
192652
192757
192853
1929114
193066
193194
1932160
1933123
1934191
1935176
1936186
1937256
1938224
1939313
1940259
1941338
1942557
1943456
1944686
1945637
1946819
1947951
1948786
1949960
19501,266
19511,395
19522,092
19531,612
19542,642
19552,773
19563,609
19574,026
19585,234
19597,291
19607,663
19618,760
196214,585
196312,926
196420,069
196519,314
196626,315
196730,255
196832,356
196937,718
197044,011
197145,026
197258,358
197352,635
197458,957
197562,358
197671,312
197774,581
197878,458
197977,475
198067,010
198187,003
198295,593
1983100,722
198493,605
198592,752
198684,968
198787,316
198872,975
198972,156
199067,213
199168,042
199268,814
199364,031
199453,492
199539,634
199623,909
199726,996
199811,452
1999880
200074
200145
200227
20036
20041
20051
20064
2007115
20088,850
200923
20107,115
2011221
20121,074
20131,931
20148,937
20153,197
201621
201768

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 114 years between 1899–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Sunita Jain, b. 1940Sunita Kohli, b. 1946Sunita Narain, b. 1961Sunita Williams, b. 1965Sunita Danuwar, b. 1977Jyoti Sunita Kullu, b. 1978Sunita Marshall, b. 1981

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●

Attested in 57 sources across 33 countries.

Official registers attesting Sunita
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—18K#337
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.7K#4,087
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—2K#52
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025561#153
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—296#3,587
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—230#16,118
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—175#10,025
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—154#4,972
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—147#6,565
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—127#4,794
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—108#1,506
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020106—

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 405 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sunita?
We estimate roughly 35 thousand people bear Sunita (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Sunita have the most bearers?
Sunita is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled sunita.
How common is Sunita compared with other names?
In India, Sunita is the 4th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Sunita a male or female name?
Sunita 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.
What does the name Sunita mean?
Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: 1 probably meaning ‘of good conduct’.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sunita” — the 4th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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