MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Nigam mean?
Nigam is a Sanskrit term for the Veda or an authoritative sacred teaching. It can also denote a town or trading settlement, showing the word's broader history beyond its devotional name sense.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
निगम
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Nigam in Indian usage
6,831 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: 3,699 records (54.2%).
- Recorded as male: 3,132 records (45.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 277 |
| 1960s | 622 |
| 1970s | 1,302 |
| 1980s | 2,262 |
| 1990s | 2,166 |
| Other decades | 202 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 2,255 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,120 |
| Maharashtra | 1,372 |
| Gujarat | 189 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 173 |
| Jharkhand | 153 |
| Delhi | 126 |
| Uttarakhand | 119 |
| Other states | 324 |
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, nigama, p. 545,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.