MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Salil mean?
Salil is the Sanskrit water word salila, used for rivers, waves, and water offered in ritual. Its older adjectival sense concerns flowing or surging, which explains the movement within the image.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सलिल
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Salil in Indian usage
3,337 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (96.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 120 records (3.6%).
- Recorded as male: 3,217 records (96.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 463 |
| 1970s | 706 |
| 1980s | 1,037 |
| 1990s | 881 |
| Other decades | 250 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,130 |
| Kerala | 413 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 379 |
| Punjab | 254 |
| Delhi | 246 |
| Jharkhand | 215 |
| Bihar | 162 |
| Goa | 107 |
| Other states | 431 |
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, salila, p. 1189,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.