MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sonali mean?
Bengali sonāli describes something golden or made of gold. Bengali sonā, gold, supplies the material noun underlying the adjective.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सोनाली
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sonali in Indian usage
45,710 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (98.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 45,205 records (98.9%).
- Recorded as male: 505 records (1.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 104 |
| 1950s | 213 |
| 1960s | 778 |
| 1970s | 4,462 |
| 1980s | 13,672 |
| 1990s | 26,360 |
| Other decades | 121 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 9,589 |
| Bihar | 7,941 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 6,799 |
| Jharkhand | 6,199 |
| Rajasthan | 2,309 |
| Delhi | 2,227 |
| Odisha | 2,146 |
| Assam | 1,584 |
| Goa | 1,248 |
| Haryana | 1,019 |
| Maharashtra | 992 |
| Punjab | 859 |
| Uttarakhand | 857 |
| Tripura | 765 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 396 |
| Meghalaya | 245 |
| Chandigarh | 124 |
| Other states | 411 |
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