MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Nilophar mean?
Persian nilufar, written نیلوفر, denotes a water lily or lotus. Urdu adopted this aquatic flower word as a feminine name, preserving its floral imagery.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
नीलोफ़र
Conventional spelling
Arabic
نیلوفر
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
निलोफर
9,500 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Nilophar in Indian usage
9,500 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling निलोफर.
Mostly recorded for girls (98.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 9,379 records (98.7%).
- Recorded as male: 121 records (1.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 202 |
| 1970s | 806 |
| 1980s | 5,423 |
| 1990s | 3,069 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 4,054 |
| Maharashtra | 1,886 |
| Bihar | 1,460 |
| Rajasthan | 1,198 |
| Jharkhand | 492 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 410 |
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: نیلوفر ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.