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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Sohel

Canopus, the bright southern star

Sohel means “Canopus, the bright southern star”.

Origin language
Arabic / Urdu
First letter
S
Historical records
7,471

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Sohel mean?

Sohel continues Arabic Suhayl, the traditional name of the star Canopus. This southern star is known in Indian astronomical vocabulary as Agastya.

Meaning themes

sky

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

सोहेल

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Sohel in Indian usage

7,471 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

These totals and margins describe the spelling सोहेल.

Mostly recorded for boys (96.5%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 263 records (3.5%).
  • Recorded as male: 7,208 records (96.5%).

By birth decade

Sohel: records by birth decade1970s: 9691970s1980s: 2,0241980s1990s: 4,1981990sOther decades: 280Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1970s969
1980s2,024
1990s4,198
Other decades280

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Madhya Pradesh1,958
Bihar1,826
Maharashtra1,253
Uttar Pradesh1,095
Rajasthan887
Other states452
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. Wiktionary: سهيل ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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