MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Badal mean?
The everyday cloud word bādal serves as a personal name in Hindi and Bengali. Its rain-bearing image belongs to the familiar vocabulary of the monsoon.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बादल
Conventional spelling
Bengali
বাদল
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Badal in Indian usage
25,848 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (93.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,569 records (6.1%).
- Recorded as male: 24,279 records (93.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 421 |
| 1940s | 1,161 |
| 1950s | 2,172 |
| 1960s | 3,499 |
| 1970s | 4,413 |
| 1980s | 6,413 |
| 1990s | 7,598 |
| Other decades | 171 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Jharkhand | 4,857 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 4,429 |
| Bihar | 4,288 |
| Tripura | 2,825 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,097 |
| Assam | 1,710 |
| Maharashtra | 1,525 |
| Punjab | 1,061 |
| Rajasthan | 1,057 |
| Haryana | 729 |
| Delhi | 331 |
| Uttarakhand | 212 |
| Gujarat | 117 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 108 |
| Other states | 502 |
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