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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Komal

soft; tender

Komal means “soft; tender”.

Origin language
Sanskrit
First letter
K
Historical records
160,694

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Komal mean?

Komala describes softness or delicacy and also appears in music for a lowered note, a separate technical use of the word. The Sanskrit adjective komala can describe a tender leaf or soft texture.

Pronunciation

IAST: komala

Meaning themes

gentlenessmusic

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

कोमल

Letter-by-letter: komala

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Komal in Indian usage

160,694 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: 107,562 records (66.9%).
  • Recorded as male: 53,132 records (33.1%).

By birth decade

Komal: records by birth decade1930s: 1,1481930s1940s: 3,4471940s1950s: 6,9291950s1960s: 12,6711960s1970s: 21,0441970s1980s: 39,3481980s1990s: 75,8281990sOther decades: 279Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1930s1,148
1940s3,447
1950s6,929
1960s12,671
1970s21,044
1980s39,348
1990s75,828
Other decades279

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Uttar Pradesh53,846
Madhya Pradesh40,823
Rajasthan18,959
Bihar16,244
Haryana11,567
Punjab8,663
Uttarakhand3,629
Jharkhand3,262
Himachal Pradesh1,061
Chandigarh584
Delhi569
Maharashtra464
Andhra Pradesh248
Assam237
Goa186
Other states352
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. Monier-Williams, komala, p. 313,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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