MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bala mean?
Sanskrit bālā denotes a girl or young child. The final long ā marks the Sanskrit feminine noun bālā.
Meaning themes
youth
Spellings in Indian scripts
Gurmukhi
ਬਾਲਾ
Conventional spelling
Bengali
বালা
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
बाला
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bala in Indian usage
114,494 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (85.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 97,968 records (85.6%).
- Recorded as male: 16,526 records (14.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,700 |
| 1940s | 6,768 |
| 1950s | 18,814 |
| 1960s | 36,722 |
| 1970s | 29,197 |
| 1980s | 15,530 |
| 1990s | 5,434 |
| Other decades | 329 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Haryana | 47,845 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 33,226 |
| Rajasthan | 8,774 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 5,521 |
| Uttarakhand | 4,672 |
| Bihar | 2,836 |
| Maharashtra | 2,686 |
| Punjab | 2,458 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,478 |
| Assam | 1,263 |
| Jharkhand | 1,255 |
| Odisha | 1,073 |
| Gujarat | 904 |
| Chandigarh | 387 |
| Other states | 116 |
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, bālā, p. 728,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.