MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Vela mean?
Vela has several documented Sanskrit senses, including a period of time and the shore of the sea. The connection is the idea of a limit or boundary, applied to both time and land.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
वेला
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Vela in Indian usage
6,171 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 3,143 records (50.9%).
- Recorded as male: 3,028 records (49.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 652 |
| 1950s | 1,149 |
| 1960s | 1,554 |
| 1970s | 1,265 |
| 1980s | 822 |
| 1990s | 367 |
| Other decades | 362 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 3,223 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,078 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 876 |
| Bihar | 432 |
| Jharkhand | 373 |
| Other states | 189 |
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, velā, p. 1018,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.