MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Chanchala mean?
Chanchala is the feminine of cañcala, describing movement, liveliness, or flickering. The name also identifies Lakshmi, with the word’s changeability sense reflecting the movement of fortune. As a separate Sanskrit noun, cañcalā can denote lightning.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
चंचला
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Chanchala in Indian usage
33,269 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 33,024 records (99.3%).
- Recorded as male: 245 records (0.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 249 |
| 1940s | 813 |
| 1950s | 2,096 |
| 1960s | 4,826 |
| 1970s | 8,184 |
| 1980s | 9,722 |
| 1990s | 7,262 |
| Other decades | 117 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 16,584 |
| Jharkhand | 9,451 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 2,897 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,020 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,120 |
| Uttarakhand | 630 |
| Rajasthan | 235 |
| Odisha | 142 |
| Other states | 190 |
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, cañcala, p. 382,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, cañcalā, p. 382,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.