MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Baliya mean?
Baliya can be an affectionate development of bal, “strength”, in northern naming. The same written form also names Ballia, a city and district in Uttar Pradesh.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बलिया
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Baliya in Indian usage
3,549 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: 2,513 records (70.8%).
- Recorded as male: 1,036 records (29.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 444 |
| 1950s | 631 |
| 1960s | 748 |
| 1970s | 681 |
| 1980s | 477 |
| 1990s | 274 |
| Other decades | 294 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Jharkhand | 1,397 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 656 |
| Bihar | 395 |
| Gujarat | 352 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 247 |
| Rajasthan | 124 |
| Haryana | 114 |
| Maharashtra | 102 |
| Other states | 162 |
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
- Wiktionary: बलिया ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, bala, p. 722,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.