MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Nagama mean?
Arabic naghma passed through Persian and Urdu into the name Nagma, also represented by Nagama. The word belongs to musical vocabulary for a tune or melodious sound.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
नगमा
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Nagama in Indian usage
57,626 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 57,063 records (99%).
- Recorded as male: 563 records (1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 429 |
| 1960s | 1,855 |
| 1970s | 5,957 |
| 1980s | 15,820 |
| 1990s | 33,398 |
| Other decades | 167 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 33,040 |
| Bihar | 12,120 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 3,958 |
| Rajasthan | 2,763 |
| Jharkhand | 2,029 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,511 |
| Maharashtra | 1,015 |
| Odisha | 534 |
| Haryana | 316 |
| Punjab | 171 |
| Other states | 169 |
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