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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Shefali

Night-flowering jasmine

Shefali means “Night-flowering jasmine”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Hindi
First letter
S
Historical records
1,212

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Shefali mean?

Shefali names the fragrant night-flowering jasmine, also called parijat or harsingar. Its pale flowers have orange centres. They fall in the morning, making the flowering tree especially noticeable at dawn.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

शेफाली

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Shefali in Indian usage

1,212 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Shefali: records by birth decade1970s: 2171970s1980s: 3861980s1990s: 5001990sOther decades: 109Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1970s217
1980s386
1990s500
Other decades109

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Delhi961
Goa118
Other states133
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, śephālikā, p. 1088,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  3. Wiktionary: शेफाली ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    meaning

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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