MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bal mean?
The form बाल is Sanskrit bāla, a child or young person. The feminine Bālā also occurs independently as a personal name.
Pronunciation
IAST: bāla
Meaning themes
youth
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बाल
Letter-by-letter: bāla
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਬਾਲ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bal in Indian usage
84,928 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (90.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 8,291 records (9.8%).
- Recorded as male: 76,637 records (90.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 2,561 |
| 1940s | 6,741 |
| 1950s | 11,998 |
| 1960s | 18,277 |
| 1970s | 20,128 |
| 1980s | 16,030 |
| 1990s | 8,516 |
| Other decades | 677 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 22,808 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 13,892 |
| Bihar | 9,789 |
| Haryana | 8,129 |
| Rajasthan | 6,620 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 5,378 |
| Punjab | 4,123 |
| Jharkhand | 4,022 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 3,185 |
| Maharashtra | 1,578 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,545 |
| Delhi | 1,353 |
| Sikkim | 1,145 |
| Assam | 467 |
| Chandigarh | 258 |
| Manipur | 155 |
| Gujarat | 109 |
| Other states | 372 |
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, bāla, p. 728,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.