MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Mangal mean?
Maṅgala is an auspiciousness word and the traditional planet-name for Mars, both of which belong to the name's cultural vocabulary. Mangala combines ordinary auspiciousness with the planet's traditional name.
Pronunciation
IAST: maṅgala
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
मंगल
Letter-by-letter: maṅgala
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Mangal in Indian usage
143,609 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (97%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 4,354 records (3%).
- Recorded as male: 139,255 records (97%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 3,763 |
| 1940s | 10,473 |
| 1950s | 17,580 |
| 1960s | 24,898 |
| 1970s | 28,274 |
| 1980s | 32,978 |
| 1990s | 24,613 |
| Other decades | 1,030 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 33,909 |
| Jharkhand | 27,629 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 25,724 |
| Bihar | 23,472 |
| Rajasthan | 13,290 |
| Haryana | 5,918 |
| Uttarakhand | 4,353 |
| Delhi | 2,872 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,728 |
| Maharashtra | 1,320 |
| Assam | 1,091 |
| Goa | 632 |
| Sikkim | 518 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 312 |
| Chandigarh | 165 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 149 |
| Other states | 527 |
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, maṅgala, p. 772,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.