Entry № 9301 · Sanskrit origin

Savita Savita — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ sah-VEE-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Sun / the sun god (Savita, Vedic solar deity)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "sun / the sun god (savita, vedic solar deity)".

Savita (सविता) is from the Sanskrit savitṛ — "the one who brings forth, the sun" — one of the names of the Vedic solar deity Savitr, who is invoked in the most sacred of all Hindu prayers, the Gayatri Mantra (Rigveda 3.62.10), recited daily by millions of Hindus for over 3,000 years. B.R. Savita Devi — Indian classical thumri singer. Savitri is a closely related Sanskrit name (covered separately) — the devoted wife who won her husband back from Yama, god of death.

Sun / the sun god (Savita, Vedic solar deity) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

सविता
Transliteration
Savitā
Pronunciation
/ sʌˈviː.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Savita stands.

Savita 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.

Savitas before her.

Real people
Savita Halappanavar
Indian-Irish symbol of Repeal the 8th.
1991 – 2012
Savita Ambedkar
Indian social activist and physician.
1909 – 2003
In fiction
Savita
Vedic solar deity Savitr.

Names connected to Savita.

The number behind Savita.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Savita reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.