MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Devla mean?
Devla is a vernacular formation built on dev, a deity or divine being. Its la ending gives the Sanskrit base a familiar regional personal-name shape.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
देवला
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Devla in Indian usage
3,710 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: 2,162 records (58.3%).
- Recorded as male: 1,548 records (41.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 285 |
| 1950s | 547 |
| 1960s | 802 |
| 1970s | 838 |
| 1980s | 700 |
| 1990s | 412 |
| Other decades | 126 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,390 |
| Jharkhand | 1,106 |
| Rajasthan | 639 |
| Bihar | 182 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 168 |
| Other states | 225 |
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, deva, p. 492,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.