Entry № 2358 · Sanskrit origin

Dayita Dayita — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ dah-YEE-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Beloved"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "beloved".

Dayita is from the Sanskrit Dayitā.

Beloved — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

दयिता
Transliteration
Dayitā
Pronunciation
/ dəˈjiː.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Dayita stands.

Dayita 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.

Dayitas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Krishna-Radha bhakti / Gita Govinda
Sanskrit beloved + Vaishnava bhakti + Krishna-Radha devotional poetry + Jayadeva Gita Govinda ~12th c. + Vidyapati Maithili Vaishnava poetry + Hindu bhakti
Hindu bhakti

Names connected to Dayita.

The number behind Dayita.

6

The Nurturer

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