MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Pala mean?
Punjabi pālā denotes frost or severe cold. As a personal name it can preserve a seasonal word, a naming pattern also seen with winter and spring vocabulary.
Meaning themes
winter
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पाला
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਪਾਲਾ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Pala in Indian usage
19,599 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (90.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,819 records (9.3%).
- Recorded as male: 17,780 records (90.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 524 |
| 1940s | 1,922 |
| 1950s | 4,934 |
| 1960s | 6,155 |
| 1970s | 3,390 |
| 1980s | 1,865 |
| 1990s | 676 |
| Other decades | 133 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Haryana | 10,597 |
| Punjab | 3,379 |
| Gujarat | 1,707 |
| Rajasthan | 1,701 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 883 |
| Maharashtra | 506 |
| Odisha | 339 |
| Uttarakhand | 126 |
| Other states | 361 |
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