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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Kamalam

Lotus

Kamalam means “Lotus”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Malayalam / Tamil
First letter
K
Historical records
11,489

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Kamalam mean?

Kamalam preserves the lotus word used in Malayalam and Tamil. The flower has a prominent place in sacred imagery, including depictions of Lakshmi seated on a lotus.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

कमलम

Conventional spelling

Malayalam

കമലം

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Kamalam in Indian usage

11,489 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Kamalam: records by birth decade1930s: 5351930s1940s: 1,9271940s1950s: 3,9131950s1960s: 3,2771960s1970s: 1,5881970sOther decades: 249Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1930s535
1940s1,927
1950s3,913
1960s3,277
1970s1,588
Other decades249

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Kerala11,076
Other states413
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Wiktionary: கமலம் ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    meaning

  3. Wiktionary: कमल ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    meaning

  4. Behind the Name: Kamala ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    meaning

  5. Monier-Williams, kamala, p. 252,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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