MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Payal mean?
Payal is the Hindi word for an ornament worn around the ankle. The name draws on jewellery and the sound associated with small bells.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पायल
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Payal in Indian usage
40,171 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (98.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 39,590 records (98.6%).
- Recorded as male: 581 records (1.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 318 |
| 1970s | 3,056 |
| 1980s | 13,281 |
| 1990s | 23,345 |
| Other decades | 171 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 9,089 |
| Rajasthan | 8,830 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 5,694 |
| Delhi | 4,198 |
| Bihar | 3,926 |
| Haryana | 3,633 |
| Jharkhand | 2,133 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,087 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 612 |
| Maharashtra | 318 |
| Chandigarh | 184 |
| Punjab | 109 |
| Other states | 358 |
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
- Wiktionary: पायल ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.