MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shail mean?
Śaila is the Sanskrit mountain word related to śilā, rock. It also appears in Shailendra and Shailaja, where a second member adds lord or born.
Pronunciation
IAST: śaila
Meaning themes
mountains
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शैल
Letter-by-letter: śaila
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shail in Indian usage
56,223 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling शैल.
Mostly recorded for girls (97.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 54,671 records (97.2%).
- Recorded as male: 1,552 records (2.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 223 |
| 1930s | 1,180 |
| 1940s | 4,460 |
| 1950s | 9,625 |
| 1960s | 18,213 |
| 1970s | 12,706 |
| 1980s | 6,825 |
| 1990s | 2,991 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 38,876 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 13,273 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,914 |
| Jharkhand | 1,544 |
| Other states | 616 |
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, śaila, p. 1089,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.