MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Soni mean?
Gold supplies the affectionate image in Hindi Soni, from sonā. Punjabi sohnī, beautiful, gives a second established explanation through the related name Sohni.
Pronunciation
IAST: sonī
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सोनी
Letter-by-letter: sonī
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
सोणी
Letter-by-letter: soṇī
1,267 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Soni in Indian usage
611,392 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (88.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 543,342 records (88.9%).
- Recorded as male: 68,050 records (11.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 2,342 |
| 1930s | 6,513 |
| 1940s | 13,320 |
| 1950s | 21,421 |
| 1960s | 33,048 |
| 1970s | 69,249 |
| 1980s | 225,363 |
| 1990s | 239,873 |
| Other decades | 263 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 225,117 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 174,647 |
| Gujarat | 57,811 |
| Maharashtra | 38,585 |
| Jharkhand | 37,371 |
| Rajasthan | 31,044 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 10,478 |
| Delhi | 8,534 |
| Punjab | 8,059 |
| Uttarakhand | 6,801 |
| Haryana | 5,243 |
| Kerala | 2,480 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,660 |
| Odisha | 1,166 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 1,038 |
| Chandigarh | 341 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 223 |
| Karnataka | 208 |
| Meghalaya | 126 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 124 |
| Other states | 336 |
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