MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Nakul mean?
Nakul is Sanskrit nakula, a mongoose. The Mahabharata’s Nakula is a son of Madri and the Ashvins. He is Sahadeva’s twin and one of the five Pandava brothers.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
नकुल
Conventional spelling
Bengali
নকুল
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Nakul in Indian usage
29,866 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 259 records (0.9%).
- Recorded as male: 29,607 records (99.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 296 |
| 1940s | 1,023 |
| 1950s | 2,538 |
| 1960s | 4,589 |
| 1970s | 5,653 |
| 1980s | 7,183 |
| 1990s | 8,427 |
| Other decades | 157 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Jharkhand | 10,163 |
| Bihar | 6,420 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 5,441 |
| Assam | 1,895 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,647 |
| Tripura | 1,314 |
| Rajasthan | 826 |
| Haryana | 729 |
| Uttarakhand | 279 |
| Kerala | 261 |
| Goa | 249 |
| Punjab | 172 |
| Delhi | 124 |
| Other states | 346 |
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, nakula, p. 523,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.