MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Subal mean?
Sanskrit subala combines su with bala to express great strength and is also a name of Shiva. In the Mahabharata, Subala is the king of Gandhara and father of Gandhari and Shakuni.
Pronunciation
IAST: subala
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सुबल
Letter-by-letter: subala
Conventional spelling
Bengali
সুবল
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Subal in Indian usage
8,709 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (97.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 198 records (2.3%).
- Recorded as male: 8,511 records (97.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 467 |
| 1950s | 1,128 |
| 1960s | 1,824 |
| 1970s | 2,024 |
| 1980s | 1,904 |
| 1990s | 1,106 |
| Other decades | 256 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Tripura | 2,920 |
| Jharkhand | 2,441 |
| Assam | 2,155 |
| Bihar | 412 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 128 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 117 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 107 |
| Other states | 429 |
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, subala, p. 1229,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.