MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shil mean?
Shil is the Sanskrit word shila, conduct or character. Buddhist teaching uses shila for ethical discipline and moral precepts, giving the name a specific philosophical context.
Pronunciation
IAST: śīla
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शील
Letter-by-letter: śīla
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shil in Indian usage
5,942 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling शील.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 3,437 records (57.8%).
- Recorded as male: 2,505 records (42.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 685 |
| 1960s | 1,256 |
| 1970s | 1,584 |
| 1980s | 1,287 |
| 1990s | 798 |
| Other decades | 332 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 3,180 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,036 |
| Haryana | 487 |
| Other states | 239 |
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, śīla, p. 1079,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.