MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Nepal mean?
Nepal is a geographical name adopted as a personal name. The country name is already recorded in Sanskrit literature, giving the naming word a long textual history.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
नेपाल
Conventional spelling
Bengali
নেপাল
3,796 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Nepal in Indian usage
24,168 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 312 records (1.3%).
- Recorded as male: 23,856 records (98.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 357 |
| 1940s | 1,157 |
| 1950s | 2,719 |
| 1960s | 4,452 |
| 1970s | 5,323 |
| 1980s | 5,786 |
| 1990s | 4,259 |
| Other decades | 115 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 5,339 |
| Jharkhand | 4,928 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 4,260 |
| Tripura | 2,877 |
| Rajasthan | 1,946 |
| Bihar | 1,482 |
| Assam | 1,147 |
| Haryana | 1,043 |
| Delhi | 485 |
| Uttarakhand | 359 |
| Other states | 302 |
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, nepāla, p. 569,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.