MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Murali mean?
Muralī is a flute word closely associated with Krishna's music in devotional literature and visual art. Murali evokes the flute in Krishna's pastoral imagery.
Pronunciation
IAST: muralī
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
मुरली
Letter-by-letter: muralī
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
मुराली
Letter-by-letter: murālī
5,918 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Murali in Indian usage
98,979 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (91.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 8,735 records (8.8%).
- Recorded as male: 90,244 records (91.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 2,363 |
| 1940s | 6,217 |
| 1950s | 11,428 |
| 1960s | 19,566 |
| 1970s | 21,889 |
| 1980s | 21,807 |
| 1990s | 15,170 |
| Other decades | 539 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Andhra Pradesh | 30,554 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 21,168 |
| Kerala | 11,080 |
| Odisha | 8,568 |
| Bihar | 7,512 |
| Rajasthan | 7,056 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 5,085 |
| Jharkhand | 4,878 |
| Puducherry | 684 |
| Haryana | 621 |
| Maharashtra | 450 |
| Uttarakhand | 393 |
| Punjab | 285 |
| Delhi | 149 |
| Karnataka | 140 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 136 |
| Other states | 220 |
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, muralī, p. 823,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.