The baby name Nivedhitha is a Female name , 4 syllables long and is pronounced ni-veh-DHEE-tha (approx.) — IPA: /nɪveːd̪ʱiːt̪ʰə/.
The baby name Nivedhitha is a Female name , 4 syllables long and is pronounced ni-veh-DHEE-tha (approx.) — IPA: /nɪveːd̪ʱiːt̪ʰə/.
Nivedhitha is Indian, Sanskrit in Origin.
Nivedhitha is a South Indian spelling of the Sanskrit feminine participle Nivedita, from nivedana/nivedayati “to offer, present, declare.” It conveys “the dedicated one,” “she who is offered to the divine,” and by extension “devoted, consecrated.” The dh/th in this form reflects regional transliteration practices in Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, and Malayalam, where dental and aspirated stops are represented differently than in standard Hindi/IAST.
The name appears in Hindu devotional vocabulary and gained modern visibility through Sister Nivedita (Margaret Noble), the Irish disciple of Swami Vivekananda active in Bengal in the early 1900s, which helped spread the form Nivedita pan-India. Today it is popular across southern India and the diaspora in Sri Lanka, Singapore, and the Gulf. Common variants and spellings include Nivedita, Niveditha, Nivetha, Nivedhita, and Niveda; masculine parallels are Nivedit and Nivedan. Pet forms Nivi or Nive are frequent.
Nivedhitha is about as rare as a name gets. In all, it appears just 11 times, across 7 countries.
Based on birth registration data from national statistics agencies.
| Country | Gender | Year | Rank | Born | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP | Girls | 0 | #251 | 1 | 6,592 |
| QA | Girls | 0 | #343 | 1 | 15,378 |
| OM | Girls | 0 | #422 | 3 | 15,987 |
| AE | Girls | 0 | #597 | 1 | 20,968 |
| SG | Girls | 0 | #631 | 2 | 18,916 |
| IN | Girls | 0 | #653 | 2 | 13,121 |
| SA | Girls | 0 | #1,014 | 1 | 25,931 |
Nivedhitha is popular in 7 countries — most recent births per country:
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