MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kokila mean?
Kokila is the Sanskrit feminine name of the cuckoo. The bird's call is a recurring image of spring and longing in Sanskrit poetry.
Meaning themes
birdmusic
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कोकिला
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kokila in Indian usage
14,261 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (97.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 13,945 records (97.8%).
- Recorded as male: 316 records (2.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 533 |
| 1940s | 1,173 |
| 1950s | 1,754 |
| 1960s | 2,775 |
| 1970s | 2,658 |
| 1980s | 2,921 |
| 1990s | 2,307 |
| Other decades | 140 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 5,460 |
| Rajasthan | 3,111 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,974 |
| Jharkhand | 993 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 843 |
| Bihar | 577 |
| Assam | 236 |
| Odisha | 193 |
| Kerala | 166 |
| Puducherry | 140 |
| Tripura | 112 |
| Other states | 456 |
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, kokilā, p. 312,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.