MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Palas mean?
Palas is a regional form of palāśa, the flame-of-the-forest tree. Its vivid orange-red blossoms make the tree a familiar image in Indian nature vocabulary.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पलास
Conventional spelling
Gujarati
પલાસ
8,816 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Palas in Indian usage
12,487 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: 4,524 records (36.2%).
- Recorded as male: 7,963 records (63.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 422 |
| 1950s | 895 |
| 1960s | 1,329 |
| 1970s | 2,099 |
| 1980s | 3,465 |
| 1990s | 4,098 |
| Other decades | 179 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Gujarat | 8,918 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,071 |
| Tripura | 812 |
| Assam | 542 |
| Jharkhand | 294 |
| Rajasthan | 268 |
| Bihar | 227 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 219 |
| Other states | 136 |
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, palāśa, p. 610,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.