MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sipahi mean?
Sipahi comes from Persian sipāhī, a member of an army. The word entered Urdu and Hindi as the ordinary term for a soldier and also became a personal name.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सिपाही
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sipahi in Indian usage
15,683 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 245 records (1.6%).
- Recorded as male: 15,438 records (98.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,380 |
| 1950s | 2,544 |
| 1960s | 3,464 |
| 1970s | 3,497 |
| 1980s | 2,782 |
| 1990s | 1,529 |
| Other decades | 487 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 8,306 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 5,972 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 697 |
| Jharkhand | 275 |
| Gujarat | 192 |
| Other states | 241 |
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