MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Anila mean?
Anila is the feminine personal-name form of Sanskrit anila, wind. Anila also names the wind deity and one of the Vasus in Sanskrit literature.
Pronunciation
IAST: anilā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
अनिला
Letter-by-letter: anilā
Conventional spelling
Odia
ଅନିଲା
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
അനില
Conventional spelling
Kannada
ಅನಿಲ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Anila in Indian usage
51,838 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 14,043 records (27.1%).
- Recorded as male: 37,795 records (72.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 211 |
| 1950s | 769 |
| 1960s | 3,426 |
| 1970s | 8,507 |
| 1980s | 14,600 |
| 1990s | 24,178 |
| Other decades | 147 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 27,488 |
| Karnataka | 13,538 |
| Kerala | 9,645 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 743 |
| Delhi | 199 |
| Other states | 225 |
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, anila, p. 30,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.