MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kamala mean?
Kamalā is the feminine lotus name and an epithet of Lakshmi, whose traditional depictions place her upon a lotus. The masculine kamala is also an ordinary Sanskrit lotus noun. Lakshmi is Vishnu's consort and the goddess of prosperity.
Pronunciation
IAST: kamalā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कमला
Letter-by-letter: kamalā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kamala in Indian usage
1,056,493 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (95%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,003,770 records (95%).
- Recorded as male: 52,723 records (5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 5,061 |
| 1930s | 30,842 |
| 1940s | 97,934 |
| 1950s | 203,502 |
| 1960s | 288,756 |
| 1970s | 210,845 |
| 1980s | 147,616 |
| 1990s | 71,608 |
| Other decades | 329 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 277,882 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 248,011 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 126,928 |
| Odisha | 78,616 |
| Haryana | 74,501 |
| Bihar | 61,968 |
| Uttarakhand | 48,285 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 29,297 |
| Jharkhand | 27,840 |
| Punjab | 22,659 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 16,316 |
| Kerala | 14,555 |
| Karnataka | 10,648 |
| Assam | 9,770 |
| Tripura | 2,829 |
| Chandigarh | 1,671 |
| Puducherry | 1,212 |
| Maharashtra | 984 |
| Sikkim | 651 |
| Manipur | 394 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 324 |
| Delhi | 301 |
| Goa | 239 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 204 |
| Meghalaya | 160 |
| Mizoram | 136 |
| Other states | 112 |
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, kamala, p. 252,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Behind the Name: Kamala ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Wiktionary: कमल ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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