MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Pahalad mean?
Pahalad is a northern vernacular form of Prahlad, a Sanskrit word for delight. Prahlad is the child devotee of Vishnu whose story is central to the Narasimha narrative.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
प्रह्लाद
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
पहलाद
Letter-by-letter: pahalāda
5,774 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Pahalad in Indian usage
6,769 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 491 |
| 1950s | 1,054 |
| 1960s | 1,625 |
| 1970s | 1,886 |
| 1980s | 795 |
| 1990s | 622 |
| Other decades | 296 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 4,439 |
| Haryana | 857 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 708 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 418 |
| Rajasthan | 228 |
| Other states | 119 |
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, prahlāda, p. 701,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.