MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kangali mean?
Kangali belongs to eastern Indian names drawn from words for poverty or helplessness. Such deliberately humble names occur in protective naming customs intended to deflect misfortune.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Odia
କାଙ୍ଗାଳି
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
कांगाली
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kangali in Indian usage
1,462 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 328 records (22.4%).
- Recorded as male: 1,134 records (77.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 235 |
| 1940s | 347 |
| 1950s | 372 |
| 1960s | 251 |
| 1970s | 154 |
| Other decades | 103 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 1,462 |
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.