Given name
Diti
“in Hinduism, an earth goddess”
Diti is used as a given name. One Hindi interpretation is “in Hinduism, an earth goddess.”
Original Hindiदिति
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hindi interpretation is “in Hinduism, an earth goddess.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hindi.
How it developed
From Sanskrit दिति (“cutting, splitting, dividing”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2012. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Diti through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 12
- 0 boys · 12 girls
- Most popular year
- 2012
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 7 in 2012.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Diti’s family of names
Diti has a related form in Ditea. Diti has a related form in Ditee. Diti has a related form in Ditey.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 11
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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