MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sadaph mean?
Sadaf is the Arabic and Urdu word for a shell, especially a pearl-bearing shell. The pearl and its shell form a familiar pair of images in Persian and Urdu verse.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सदफ़
Conventional spelling
Arabic
صدف
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
सदफ
5,783 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sadaph in Indian usage
5,783 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling सदफ.
Mostly recorded for girls (90.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 5,235 records (90.5%).
- Recorded as male: 548 records (9.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1970s | 170 |
| 1980s | 2,119 |
| 1990s | 3,494 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,487 |
| Bihar | 1,086 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 514 |
| Jharkhand | 234 |
| Maharashtra | 219 |
| Other states | 243 |
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