MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Jhameli mean?
Jhameli belongs to the vernacular name group related to jhamela, a complicated affair or entanglement. Such ordinary, sometimes unflattering words also occur in north Indian protective naming customs.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
झमेली
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Jhameli in Indian usage
1,380 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (85.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 197 records (14.3%).
- Recorded as male: 1,183 records (85.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 183 |
| 1950s | 337 |
| 1960s | 356 |
| 1970s | 236 |
| 1980s | 135 |
| Other decades | 133 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Other states | 1,380 |
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
- Crooke, Folk-Lore of Northern India, vol. II, ch. I ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical protective naming, symbolic child-sale names, and nose-piercing names. The regional applications to Bechan, Chhedi and Nathi are editorial readings, not quoted headword definitions.