The dense jungle there (before men started settlements there) was teeming with Cheetahs, and, the word for 'jungle' in Hindi is van.
So, the people around started to call that locality as Cheetah-van, which was later modified as Chitvan.
The dense jungle in the past was teeming with spotted-deer, and so they started to call it Chitri-van which gave way to the present word for the district.
Chitri meaning spotted.
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