MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Lal mean?
Lal has distinct affectionate and colour senses, and a compound's meaning depends on which sense its whole native form supports. Lalmani needs the ruby or red sense because the whole word names a gem.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
लाल
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Lal in Indian usage
309,488 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (87.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 39,202 records (12.7%).
- Recorded as male: 270,286 records (87.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 1,942 |
| 1930s | 7,944 |
| 1940s | 22,815 |
| 1950s | 42,791 |
| 1960s | 68,720 |
| 1970s | 72,947 |
| 1980s | 58,370 |
| 1990s | 33,731 |
| Other decades | 228 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 92,627 |
| Bihar | 86,335 |
| Rajasthan | 22,377 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 18,825 |
| Jharkhand | 17,292 |
| Punjab | 15,913 |
| Haryana | 15,259 |
| Delhi | 10,622 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 6,923 |
| Uttarakhand | 5,389 |
| Assam | 5,311 |
| Maharashtra | 4,815 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 2,445 |
| Kerala | 1,536 |
| Gujarat | 702 |
| Chandigarh | 669 |
| Manipur | 602 |
| Tripura | 597 |
| Sikkim | 283 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 245 |
| Meghalaya | 241 |
| Odisha | 111 |
| Nagaland | 109 |
| Mizoram | 106 |
| Other states | 154 |
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
- Given-name entry (Wikidata): Lal ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Given-name spelling
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Wiktionary: लाल ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
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