MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sonapal mean?
Sonapal combines son, gold, with pāl, guardian. Son is a vernacular relative of sonā, giving the name a material image of value and protection.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सोनपाल
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sonapal in Indian usage
17,962 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (97.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 383 records (2.1%).
- Recorded as male: 17,579 records (97.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,232 |
| 1950s | 2,110 |
| 1960s | 3,190 |
| 1970s | 2,950 |
| 1980s | 4,333 |
| 1990s | 3,610 |
| Other decades | 537 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 15,322 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 978 |
| Rajasthan | 719 |
| Gujarat | 376 |
| Maharashtra | 200 |
| Haryana | 186 |
| Other states | 181 |
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, pāla, p. 622,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.