MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kaval mean?
Kaval can reflect the northern lotus name Kanwal through a shortened regional form. Sanskrit kavala is a separate whole word for a morsel or mouthful, so the written form कवल has two possible lexical backgrounds.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कवल
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kaval in Indian usage
7,294 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: 2,696 records (37%).
- Recorded as male: 4,598 records (63%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 749 |
| 1950s | 1,149 |
| 1960s | 1,430 |
| 1970s | 1,400 |
| 1980s | 1,408 |
| 1990s | 785 |
| Other decades | 373 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,200 |
| Punjab | 2,053 |
| Haryana | 1,222 |
| Bihar | 632 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 368 |
| Maharashtra | 294 |
| Jharkhand | 161 |
| Uttarakhand | 152 |
| Rajasthan | 101 |
| Other states | 111 |
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, kavala, p. 264,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.