Entry № 1911 · Sanskrit origin

Charita Charita — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ chah-REE-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Character / biography"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "character / biography".

Charita is from the Sanskrit Caritā. Ramacharitamanas by Tulsidas 1574 CE Awadhi Ramayana.

Ramacharitamanas by Tulsidas 1574 CE Awadhi Ramayana

The name in its native script.

चरिता
Transliteration
Caritā
Pronunciation
/ tʃəˈriː.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Charita stands.

Charita does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Charitas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Ramacharitamanas / Harshacharita
Sanskrit character biography + Harshacharita by Bana ~7th c. + Vikramankadevacharita by Bilhana ~11th c. + Ramacharitamanas by Tulsidas 1574 Awadhi Ramayana
Sanskrit biography

Names connected to Charita.

The number behind Charita.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Charita reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.