MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Abala mean?
Abala is a Sanskrit-derived word for a woman, literally one without strength. Bengali adopted this word as a feminine personal name, preserving the older literary vocabulary.
Pronunciation
IAST: abalā
Spellings in Indian scripts
Bengali
অবলা
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
अबला
Letter-by-letter: abalā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Abala in Indian usage
5,432 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (92.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 5,022 records (92.5%).
- Recorded as male: 410 records (7.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 344 |
| 1940s | 724 |
| 1950s | 1,104 |
| 1960s | 1,223 |
| 1970s | 1,015 |
| 1980s | 656 |
| Other decades | 366 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 2,075 |
| Assam | 1,595 |
| Jharkhand | 502 |
| Tripura | 446 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 232 |
| Gujarat | 147 |
| Rajasthan | 126 |
| Uttarakhand | 123 |
| Other states | 186 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, abala, p. 60,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, abalā, p. 60,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.