MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Pramila mean?
Prameela is the southern form of Pramila, recorded in Sanskrit as the name of a queen. The Sanskrit verb pra-mīl means to close the eyes. Pramila is also the name of Indrajit's wife in Meghnad Badh Kavya.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
प्रमिला
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
പ്രമീള
Conventional spelling
Other spellings
- Prameela
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Pramila in Indian usage
464,809 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 463,300 records (99.7%).
- Recorded as male: 1,509 records (0.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 984 |
| 1930s | 2,688 |
| 1940s | 10,444 |
| 1950s | 44,944 |
| 1960s | 90,673 |
| 1970s | 129,243 |
| 1980s | 122,921 |
| 1990s | 62,784 |
| Other decades | 128 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 154,788 |
| Odisha | 93,105 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 54,926 |
| Jharkhand | 43,781 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 38,542 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 16,424 |
| Rajasthan | 16,261 |
| Haryana | 14,148 |
| Kerala | 11,180 |
| Assam | 6,036 |
| Tripura | 3,157 |
| Uttarakhand | 3,046 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,988 |
| Delhi | 1,877 |
| Karnataka | 1,785 |
| Goa | 1,318 |
| Maharashtra | 1,026 |
| Punjab | 363 |
| Sikkim | 298 |
| Puducherry | 221 |
| Chandigarh | 128 |
| Other states | 411 |
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, pramīl, p. 686,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, pramīlā, p. 686,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Meghnad Badh Kavya, annotated Bengali text ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Pramila is Indrajit’s wife in the primary poem and its annotations; no reliance on the host summary.
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.