MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Chandrakali mean?
Chandrakali brings Sanskrit candra, moon, into a compound with Hindi kalī, a flower bud. The second element belongs to north Indian folk naming, where a young blossom is an affectionate image for a daughter.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
चन्द्रकली
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Chandrakali in Indian usage
33,520 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 33,327 records (99.4%).
- Recorded as male: 193 records (0.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,697 |
| 1940s | 4,237 |
| 1950s | 6,337 |
| 1960s | 8,156 |
| 1970s | 6,364 |
| 1980s | 4,298 |
| 1990s | 2,112 |
| Other decades | 319 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 26,292 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 5,507 |
| Bihar | 1,314 |
| Uttarakhand | 236 |
| Other states | 171 |
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, candra, p. 386,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.