MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Malini mean?
Malini is the feminine of malin, garlanded or surrounded with a garland. It is also a name of Durga. In the Mahabharata, Draupadi uses Malini as a name during her stay at Virata's court.
Pronunciation
IAST: mālinī
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
मालिनी
Letter-by-letter: mālinī
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
മാലിനി
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Malini in Indian usage
3,590 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 316 |
| 1960s | 576 |
| 1970s | 1,037 |
| 1980s | 1,076 |
| 1990s | 384 |
| Other decades | 201 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 2,287 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 458 |
| Goa | 377 |
| Puducherry | 266 |
| Other states | 202 |
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, mālin, p. 813,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, mālinī, p. 814,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.