Entry № 9822 · Sanskrit origin

Smita Smita — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SMEE-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Smiling (iconic Smita Patil Bollywood Padma Shri)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "smiling (iconic smita patil bollywood padma shri)".

Smita is from the Sanskrit smitā (स्मिता — smiling, with a smile). Smita Thackeray — modern Indian-American figure. Princess Smita — Hindu heritage naming.

Smiling (iconic Smita Patil Bollywood Padma Shri) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

स्मिता
Transliteration
Smitā
Pronunciation
/ ˈsmiː.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Smita stands.

Smita 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.

Smitas before her.

Real people
Smita Patil
Iconic Indian Parallel Cinema + 2x National Film Award + Padma Shri.
1955 – 1986
In fiction
Smita
Sanskrit for smiling.

Names connected to Smita.

The number behind Smita.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Smita reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.