MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Pal mean?
Pāla is the protecting element of many compound names, while Pal can also occur as a surname and needs contextual identity evidence. Pāla appears as the final protector member in Gopal and Rajpal.
Pronunciation
IAST: pāla
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पाल
Letter-by-letter: pāla
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਪਾਲ
Conventional spelling
Gujarati
પાલ
Conventional spelling
Bengali
পাল
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Pal in Indian usage
96,503 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 37,671 records (39%).
- Recorded as male: 58,832 records (61%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,546 |
| 1940s | 4,970 |
| 1950s | 10,076 |
| 1960s | 18,361 |
| 1970s | 25,738 |
| 1980s | 24,175 |
| 1990s | 11,265 |
| Other decades | 372 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Maharashtra | 57,929 |
| Punjab | 15,039 |
| Gujarat | 12,676 |
| Haryana | 2,627 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,309 |
| Assam | 1,321 |
| Rajasthan | 1,061 |
| Tripura | 862 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 857 |
| Uttarakhand | 398 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 381 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 341 |
| Jharkhand | 161 |
| Bihar | 155 |
| Chandigarh | 119 |
| Other states | 267 |
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, pāla, p. 622,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.