MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Mallika mean?
The Sanskrit flower word mallikā denotes jasmine, including its fragrant white blossoms. The name is used in Bengali as মল্লিকা and belongs to the long Indian practice of naming children after flowers.
Pronunciation
IAST: mallikā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
मल्लिका
Letter-by-letter: mallikā
Conventional spelling
Bengali
মল্লিকা
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Mallika in Indian usage
7,420 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 | 371 |
| 1960s | 858 |
| 1970s | 1,464 |
| 1980s | 2,508 |
| 1990s | 2,019 |
| Other decades | 200 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Tripura | 2,540 |
| Assam | 2,251 |
| Jharkhand | 1,041 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 455 |
| Bihar | 291 |
| Karnataka | 165 |
| Rajasthan | 148 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 129 |
| Haryana | 121 |
| Uttarakhand | 111 |
| Other states | 168 |
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, mallikā, p. 793,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.