MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Indal mean?
The Alha ballad tradition remembers Indal as the son of Alha. That literary association gives this north Indian name a specific heroic setting, although its independent word derivation is less clear.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
इन्दल
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
इंदल
Letter-by-letter: iṃdala
7,395 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Indal in Indian usage
35,712 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (97.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 930 records (2.6%).
- Recorded as male: 34,782 records (97.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 656 |
| 1950s | 1,542 |
| 1960s | 4,099 |
| 1970s | 9,392 |
| 1980s | 11,719 |
| 1990s | 8,086 |
| Other decades | 218 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 18,393 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 13,816 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,225 |
| Delhi | 360 |
| Jharkhand | 358 |
| Rajasthan | 166 |
| Haryana | 140 |
| Uttarakhand | 122 |
| Other states | 132 |
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