MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kapila mean?
Kapila is a Sanskrit adjective for tawny or reddish-brown colour. The sage Kapila is remembered as the founder of Samkhya philosophy, giving the masculine name a major philosophical referent.
Pronunciation
IAST: kapila
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कपिल
Letter-by-letter: kapila
Conventional spelling
Odia
କପିଳ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kapila in Indian usage
5,898 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (80.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,167 records (19.8%).
- Recorded as male: 4,731 records (80.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 547 |
| 1950s | 892 |
| 1960s | 1,100 |
| 1970s | 1,144 |
| 1980s | 1,141 |
| 1990s | 646 |
| Other decades | 428 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 5,379 |
| Karnataka | 357 |
| Other states | 162 |
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, kapila, p. 250,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.