Sarita

Where Sarita comes from

Borrowed from Sanskrit सरिता (saritā).
— Wiktionary's entry for Sarita
  • Sanskrit
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1910
    First appearance
    #2,140 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1941
    Sarita Joshi born
    Indian actress
  3. 1966
    Sarita Choudhury born
    British actress
  4. 1966
    Peak, #769
    163 babies named Sarita — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1971
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,500.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Namesakes
  • Sarita Choudhury · British actress, born 1966
  • Sarita Joshi · Indian actress, born 1941
  • Sarita · Indian amateur wrestler, born 1995
  • Sarita Adve · computer scientist and professor
  • Sarita Singh · Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.