MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sonal mean?
Sonal is a Gujarati personal name built on sonā, gold. The metal word continues the Sanskrit suvarṇa family in modern Indo-Aryan speech.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सोनल
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਸੋਨਲ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sonal in Indian usage
26,031 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (89%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 23,171 records (89%).
- Recorded as male: 2,860 records (11%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 317 |
| 1970s | 2,765 |
| 1980s | 10,557 |
| 1990s | 12,272 |
| Other decades | 120 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 6,277 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 5,815 |
| Rajasthan | 5,094 |
| Bihar | 2,638 |
| Delhi | 2,093 |
| Haryana | 1,198 |
| Jharkhand | 850 |
| Uttarakhand | 445 |
| Punjab | 409 |
| Goa | 309 |
| Maharashtra | 291 |
| Kerala | 139 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 121 |
| Other states | 352 |
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, suvarṇa, p. 1236,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.