MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Neelam mean?
Neelam names the blue gemstone and shares its colour root with nīla, while the gem sense is the familiar personal-name interpretation. The gemstone is a blue variety of corundum and is known in Hindi as nīlam.
Pronunciation
IAST: nīlama
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
नीलम
Letter-by-letter: nīlama
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Neelam in Indian usage
723,460 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (98.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 712,822 records (98.5%).
- Recorded as male: 10,638 records (1.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 766 |
| 1940s | 2,949 |
| 1950s | 21,780 |
| 1960s | 85,716 |
| 1970s | 173,470 |
| 1980s | 259,879 |
| 1990s | 178,348 |
| Other decades | 552 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 281,369 |
| Bihar | 168,922 |
| Haryana | 67,131 |
| Punjab | 45,741 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 40,412 |
| Rajasthan | 32,341 |
| Jharkhand | 26,255 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 20,925 |
| Delhi | 16,732 |
| Uttarakhand | 15,908 |
| Chandigarh | 2,587 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 1,350 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 827 |
| Maharashtra | 822 |
| Goa | 538 |
| Assam | 350 |
| Sikkim | 218 |
| Meghalaya | 143 |
| Odisha | 137 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 132 |
| Karnataka | 131 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 126 |
| Other states | 363 |
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
- Wiktionary: नीलम ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Behind the Name: Neelam ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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