MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kaliya mean?
In northern naming, Kaliya can be an affectionate feminine development of kālī, dark. A second familiar interpretation connects it with kalī, a flower bud, so both colour and floral senses occur.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कलिया
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kaliya in Indian usage
16,427 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (91.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 15,007 records (91.4%).
- Recorded as male: 1,420 records (8.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 939 |
| 1940s | 2,176 |
| 1950s | 2,991 |
| 1960s | 4,169 |
| 1970s | 3,275 |
| 1980s | 1,915 |
| 1990s | 720 |
| Other decades | 242 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 8,458 |
| Bihar | 3,790 |
| Jharkhand | 1,487 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,296 |
| Rajasthan | 897 |
| Haryana | 302 |
| Other states | 197 |
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