MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Chami mean?
Chami is a southern regional form beside Sami, a respectful word for a lord or master. Tamil sami is also used for God and for addressing a spiritual teacher.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
चामी
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
ചാമി
Conventional spelling
Tamil
சாமி
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Chami in Indian usage
3,565 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (96.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 138 records (3.9%).
- Recorded as male: 3,427 records (96.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 296 |
| 1940s | 866 |
| 1950s | 1,078 |
| 1960s | 747 |
| 1970s | 354 |
| Other decades | 224 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 3,261 |
| Assam | 200 |
| Other states | 104 |
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: சாமி ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.