MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Dil mean?
Dil is the Persian word for the heart, adopted into Urdu and several Indian languages. In poetry it can also express feeling, affection and the inner life.
Meaning themes
heart
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
दिल
Conventional spelling
Bengali
দিল
Conventional spelling
Arabic
دل
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Dil in Indian usage
16,596 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: 6,370 records (38.4%).
- Recorded as male: 10,226 records (61.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 376 |
| 1940s | 922 |
| 1950s | 1,763 |
| 1960s | 2,917 |
| 1970s | 3,647 |
| 1980s | 3,814 |
| 1990s | 3,026 |
| Other decades | 131 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 4,217 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,407 |
| Sikkim | 1,600 |
| Haryana | 1,329 |
| Jharkhand | 1,192 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 878 |
| Assam | 739 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 578 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 519 |
| Uttarakhand | 511 |
| Karnataka | 459 |
| Rajasthan | 436 |
| Punjab | 433 |
| Meghalaya | 286 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 253 |
| Manipur | 210 |
| Nagaland | 130 |
| Delhi | 121 |
| Other states | 298 |
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