MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Nepali mean?
Nepali is the geographic adjective for Nepal and a personal name drawn from that place. Nepali is also the country’s principal official language, an Indo-Aryan language written in Devanagari.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
नेपाली
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Nepali in Indian usage
7,380 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 1,700 records (23%).
- Recorded as male: 5,680 records (77%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 563 |
| 1950s | 1,133 |
| 1960s | 1,526 |
| 1970s | 1,746 |
| 1980s | 1,422 |
| 1990s | 748 |
| Other decades | 242 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 3,767 |
| Jharkhand | 1,013 |
| Maharashtra | 854 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 845 |
| Gujarat | 544 |
| Other states | 357 |
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