MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Jangali mean?
Jangali is formed from jangal, forest, with a relational ending. Its Sanskrit relatives jaṅgala and jāṅgala describe arid or sparsely wooded country, preserving an older land description sense.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
जंगली
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Jangali in Indian usage
10,383 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (81.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,934 records (18.6%).
- Recorded as male: 8,449 records (81.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 628 |
| 1940s | 1,461 |
| 1950s | 2,017 |
| 1960s | 2,318 |
| 1970s | 1,960 |
| 1980s | 1,350 |
| 1990s | 503 |
| Other decades | 146 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 4,618 |
| Bihar | 3,257 |
| Maharashtra | 927 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 733 |
| Jharkhand | 332 |
| Rajasthan | 277 |
| Haryana | 108 |
| Other states | 131 |
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, jaṅgala, p. 408,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, jāṅgala, p. 417,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.