MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sunil mean?
Sunīla contains nīla, blue, strengthened by su, and describes a colour. Sunila is the corresponding feminine Sanskrit form.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Malayalam
സുനിൽ
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
सुनील
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sunil in Indian usage
1,444,579 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 21,770 records (1.5%).
- Recorded as male: 1,422,809 records (98.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 1,200 |
| 1930s | 834 |
| 1940s | 3,326 |
| 1950s | 19,802 |
| 1960s | 100,090 |
| 1970s | 298,640 |
| 1980s | 576,015 |
| 1990s | 444,383 |
| Other decades | 289 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 477,550 |
| Bihar | 280,873 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 179,742 |
| Haryana | 113,079 |
| Rajasthan | 105,421 |
| Jharkhand | 79,912 |
| Delhi | 47,496 |
| Kerala | 43,374 |
| Punjab | 31,908 |
| Uttarakhand | 25,256 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 18,161 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 15,877 |
| Tripura | 6,338 |
| Assam | 5,588 |
| Maharashtra | 2,987 |
| Chandigarh | 2,913 |
| Goa | 2,424 |
| Odisha | 1,421 |
| Meghalaya | 796 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 716 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 645 |
| Sikkim | 417 |
| Karnataka | 364 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 307 |
| Manipur | 290 |
| Mizoram | 230 |
| Nagaland | 191 |
| Daman and Diu | 143 |
| Other states | 160 |
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, sunīla, p. 1226,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Behind the Name: Sunil ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.