MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Nirmala mean?
Nirmalā is the feminine form of nirmala, built from a removing prefix and mala, stain or impurity. Nirmal is the related masculine adjective and modern name.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Malayalam
നിർമ്മല
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
निर्मला
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Nirmala in Indian usage
709,926 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (97.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 692,220 records (97.5%).
- Recorded as male: 17,706 records (2.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 4,373 |
| 1940s | 20,351 |
| 1950s | 68,280 |
| 1960s | 165,400 |
| 1970s | 189,571 |
| 1980s | 168,373 |
| 1990s | 92,633 |
| Other decades | 945 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 219,712 |
| Bihar | 143,369 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 70,885 |
| Rajasthan | 65,137 |
| Haryana | 61,311 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 26,641 |
| Odisha | 24,346 |
| Jharkhand | 24,202 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 19,586 |
| Karnataka | 16,745 |
| Uttarakhand | 14,005 |
| Kerala | 13,014 |
| Maharashtra | 1,800 |
| Assam | 1,698 |
| Chandigarh | 1,360 |
| Tripura | 1,240 |
| Goa | 1,164 |
| Puducherry | 1,096 |
| Delhi | 849 |
| Sikkim | 612 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 307 |
| Meghalaya | 226 |
| Manipur | 201 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 192 |
| Other states | 228 |
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, nirmala, p. 541,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: निर्मल ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Behind the Name: Nirmala ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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