MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Somapal mean?
Somapāla is a whole Sanskrit word for a guardian or keeper of Soma. Vedic Soma refers to a sacred plant and its pressed drink. Soma also becomes a deity name in that tradition.
Pronunciation
IAST: somapāla
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सोमपाल
Letter-by-letter: somapāla
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Somapal in Indian usage
24,191 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 109 records (0.5%).
- Recorded as male: 24,082 records (99.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 2,644 |
| 1960s | 5,780 |
| 1970s | 5,700 |
| 1980s | 6,097 |
| 1990s | 3,175 |
| Other decades | 795 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 20,007 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,862 |
| Haryana | 1,631 |
| Punjab | 260 |
| Rajasthan | 183 |
| Other states | 248 |
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, somapāla, p. 1250,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, soma, p. 1249,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.