MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bakul mean?
Bakul is the name of the fragrant flowering tree also called maulshri in Hindi. Its small sweet-scented flowers are woven into garlands and appear in Sanskrit and Bengali poetry.
Pronunciation
IAST: bakula
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Bengali
বকুল
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
बकुल
Letter-by-letter: bakula
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bakul in Indian usage
5,436 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: 3,061 records (56.3%).
- Recorded as male: 2,375 records (43.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 336 |
| 1950s | 771 |
| 1960s | 1,263 |
| 1970s | 1,213 |
| 1980s | 1,069 |
| 1990s | 564 |
| Other decades | 220 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Tripura | 2,567 |
| Assam | 1,992 |
| Jharkhand | 247 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 100 |
| Other states | 530 |
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, bakula, p. 719,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.