MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kala mean?
Art and a portion are among the senses of Sanskrit kalā. The arts sense also appears in Kalavati, a name expressing possession of artistic accomplishments.
Pronunciation
IAST: kalā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कला
Letter-by-letter: kalā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kala in Indian usage
104,667 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (95.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 99,968 records (95.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 3,680 |
| 1940s | 9,414 |
| 1950s | 16,544 |
| 1960s | 25,655 |
| 1970s | 23,853 |
| 1980s | 15,879 |
| 1990s | 8,779 |
| Other decades | 863 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 44,494 |
| Rajasthan | 12,102 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 11,123 |
| Bihar | 10,106 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 6,618 |
| Haryana | 5,283 |
| Kerala | 4,055 |
| Uttarakhand | 2,475 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 1,728 |
| Jharkhand | 1,637 |
| Odisha | 1,319 |
| Puducherry | 1,210 |
| Punjab | 543 |
| Maharashtra | 319 |
| Mizoram | 285 |
| Delhi | 229 |
| Sikkim | 186 |
| Gujarat | 185 |
| Assam | 170 |
| Manipur | 161 |
| Chandigarh | 122 |
| Other states | 317 |
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, kalā, p. 261,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.