MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Madhubala mean?
Madhubala combines madhu, honey or sweetness, with bālā, a girl or young maiden. Sanskrit uses honey as a metaphor for pleasantness, giving the compound its affectionate sense.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
मधुबाला
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Madhubala in Indian usage
26,873 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 26,708 records (99.4%).
- Recorded as male: 165 records (0.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 2,165 |
| 1960s | 5,673 |
| 1970s | 6,675 |
| 1980s | 7,263 |
| 1990s | 4,710 |
| Other decades | 387 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 10,396 |
| Rajasthan | 5,581 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 5,465 |
| Bihar | 2,254 |
| Haryana | 1,162 |
| Uttarakhand | 694 |
| Jharkhand | 687 |
| Assam | 174 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 170 |
| Tripura | 118 |
| Other states | 172 |
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, madhu, p. 779,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, bālā, p. 728,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.