MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Rudal mean?
Rudal is a regional personal-name form associated with Rudra, a name of Shiva. The shift of the consonant group is part of vernacular name development, allowing the devotional referent to remain recognizable.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
रुदल
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
रूदल
Letter-by-letter: rūdala
17,482 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Rudal in Indian usage
28,683 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 368 records (1.3%).
- Recorded as male: 28,315 records (98.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 475 |
| 1940s | 1,330 |
| 1950s | 2,654 |
| 1960s | 4,915 |
| 1970s | 8,137 |
| 1980s | 7,624 |
| 1990s | 3,429 |
| Other decades | 119 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 18,789 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 9,056 |
| Jharkhand | 337 |
| Other states | 501 |
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, rudra, p. 883,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.