MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sakila mean?
Arabic šakīla enters Urdu naming as Shakila and the regional Sakila. The underlying root concerns shape or form.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शकीला
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
सकीला
36,686 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sakila in Indian usage
36,686 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling सकीला.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 36,364 records (99.1%).
- Recorded as male: 322 records (0.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,037 |
| 1950s | 3,144 |
| 1960s | 9,266 |
| 1970s | 11,183 |
| 1980s | 8,552 |
| 1990s | 3,159 |
| Other decades | 345 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 14,514 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 12,669 |
| Jharkhand | 3,997 |
| Rajasthan | 2,240 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,899 |
| Other states | 1,367 |
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