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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Maina

myna bird

Maina means “myna bird”.

Origin language
Hindi
First letter
M
Historical records
101,374

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Maina mean?

The recognizable myna bird supplies the familiar personal name Maina. The bird image gives the name a specific animal association.

Pronunciation

IAST: mainā

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

मैना

Letter-by-letter: mainā

Conventional spelling

Bengali

মইনা

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Maina in Indian usage

101,374 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for girls (98.5%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 99,882 records (98.5%).
  • Recorded as male: 1,492 records (1.5%).

By birth decade

Maina: records by birth decade1930s: 2,5551930s1940s: 6,4261940s1950s: 11,5411950s1960s: 19,3121960s1970s: 20,1471970s1980s: 23,0531980s1990s: 17,7301990sOther decades: 610Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1930s2,555
1940s6,426
1950s11,541
1960s19,312
1970s20,147
1980s23,053
1990s17,730
Other decades610

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Rajasthan35,881
Uttar Pradesh28,311
Bihar9,833
Madhya Pradesh5,950
Haryana5,848
Assam4,283
Odisha3,620
Jharkhand2,841
Himachal Pradesh1,795
Uttarakhand880
Punjab837
Delhi529
Karnataka111
Andhra Pradesh108
Other states547
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

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