MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Pali mean?
Pali can be a feminine formation from pal, keeping or protecting. Sanskrit pali also denotes a herdsman's wife, giving the form a second pastoral sense alongside its familiar use as a short personal name.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पाली
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Pali in Indian usage
7,837 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: 4,509 records (57.5%).
- Recorded as male: 3,328 records (42.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 601 |
| 1950s | 1,250 |
| 1960s | 1,836 |
| 1970s | 1,739 |
| 1980s | 1,485 |
| 1990s | 630 |
| Other decades | 296 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Maharashtra | 2,593 |
| Haryana | 1,567 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,210 |
| Punjab | 925 |
| Rajasthan | 579 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 237 |
| Jharkhand | 226 |
| Bihar | 185 |
| Uttarakhand | 137 |
| Other states | 178 |
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, pālī, p. 622,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.