MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Nigar mean?
Nigar is a Persian word for a picture or painted image that also acquired the poetic sense of a beloved. Urdu poetry uses it as a term of beauty and affection, which supports its familiar feminine personal use.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
निगार
Conventional spelling
Arabic
نگار
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Nigar in Indian usage
7,549 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (94.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 7,117 records (94.3%).
- Recorded as male: 432 records (5.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 958 |
| 1970s | 1,679 |
| 1980s | 2,582 |
| 1990s | 1,972 |
| Other decades | 358 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,773 |
| Bihar | 2,132 |
| Jharkhand | 738 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 417 |
| Maharashtra | 180 |
| Rajasthan | 150 |
| Other states | 159 |
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: نگار ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.