MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Maniya mean?
Maniya is an affectionate vernacular development of maṇi, “jewel”. The diminutive shape makes the precious object word into a familiar household name.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
मनिया
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Maniya in Indian usage
12,639 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (85.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 10,781 records (85.3%).
- Recorded as male: 1,858 records (14.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 653 |
| 1940s | 1,386 |
| 1950s | 2,016 |
| 1960s | 3,293 |
| 1970s | 2,689 |
| 1980s | 1,641 |
| 1990s | 752 |
| Other decades | 209 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 5,080 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,841 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,170 |
| Jharkhand | 1,122 |
| Rajasthan | 889 |
| Assam | 239 |
| Other states | 298 |
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, maṇi, p. 774,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.