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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Nimai

Chaitanya; neem-tree name

Nimai means “Chaitanya; neem-tree name”.

Origin language
Bengali / Hindi
First letter
N
Historical records
5,594

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Nimai mean?

Nimai is the childhood name of Chaitanya, the Bengali devotional teacher. His birth beneath a neem tree is the story that explains the name's connection with nim, neem. Chaitanya became a major teacher of devotion to Radha and Krishna.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

निमाई

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Nimai in Indian usage

5,594 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Nimai: records by birth decade1950s: 5571950s1960s: 1,0681960s1970s: 1,3301970s1980s: 1,4571980s1990s: 8471990sOther decades: 335Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1950s557
1960s1,068
1970s1,330
1980s1,457
1990s847
Other decades335

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Jharkhand4,865
Uttar Pradesh231
Uttarakhand210
Bihar128
Other states160
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

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