Given name & surname
Smita
“one who smiles a lot”
Smita is used as a given name and a surname. One Indian interpretation is “one who smiles a lot.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Indian interpretation is “one who smiles a lot.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Indian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1967. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Smita through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 134
- 0 boys · 134 girls
- Most popular year
- 1981
- 16 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 6 in 1999. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,988 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Smita’s family of names
In English usage, Smita has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Смита. In English usage, Smita has a conventional equivalent in the Punjabi form سمیتا. In English usage, Smita has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form स्मिता.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Smita has relatives in 10 languages.
9 related names in 10 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Smita
- Smita PatilIndian actress (1955–1986)
- Smita AgarwalIndian poet and a professor of English literature at the University of Prayagraj, India.born 1958
- Smita BansalIndian actressborn 1977
- Smita Nair JainIndian business executiveborn 1969
- Smita TandiIndian police constable and activist
- Smita BellurHindustani classical vocalist and Sufi singer
- Samita SenIndian historian and academicborn 1962
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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