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Ningappa

Revered Shiva as Linga

Ningappa means “Revered Shiva as Linga”.

Origin language
Kannada
First letter
N
Historical records
29,072

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Ningappa mean?

Ningappa is a conventional Kannada name related to Lingappa. The divine element Linga refers to Shiva's emblem, while appa means father and supplies a respectful masculine ending.

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

निंगप्पा

Conventional spelling

Kannada

ನಿಂಗಪ್ಪ

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Ningappa in Indian usage

29,072 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for boys (99.3%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 190 records (0.7%).
  • Recorded as male: 28,882 records (99.3%).

By birth decade

Ningappa: records by birth decade1930s: 1,0431930s1940s: 2,5051940s1950s: 4,1351950s1960s: 5,1441960s1970s: 6,0761970s1980s: 6,6201980s1990s: 3,3451990sOther decades: 204Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1930s1,043
1940s2,505
1950s4,135
1960s5,144
1970s6,076
1980s6,620
1990s3,345
Other decades204

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Other states29,072
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

  2. Monier-Williams, liṅga, p. 901,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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