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Anup

incomparable; matchless

Anup means “incomparable; matchless”.

Origin language
Hindi / Sanskrit
First letter
A
Historical records
210,006

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Anup mean?

Anup has a familiar matchless naming interpretation, but anūpa also denotes a watery place in Sanskrit, requiring attention to the native word. Anupama is the fuller feminine form of the comparison-free adjective.

Pronunciation

IAST: anūpa

/ə.nuːp/

Meaning themes

uniqueness

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

अनूप

Letter-by-letter: anūpa

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

Pronunciation in the dictionary

अनूप: /ə.nuːp/ Wiktionary ↗

Other spellings

  • Anoop

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Anup in Indian usage

210,006 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for boys (95.5%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 9,452 records (4.5%).
  • Recorded as male: 200,554 records (95.5%).

By birth decade

Anup: records by birth decade1930s: 1,5061930s1940s: 3,3091940s1950s: 6,5641950s1960s: 14,7451960s1970s: 30,9001970s1980s: 81,0821980s1990s: 71,2911990sOther decades: 609Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1930s1,506
1940s3,309
1950s6,564
1960s14,745
1970s30,900
1980s81,082
1990s71,291
Other decades609

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Uttar Pradesh82,035
Kerala31,035
Bihar18,837
Madhya Pradesh14,323
Haryana12,713
Rajasthan12,467
Jharkhand11,385
Uttarakhand6,396
Delhi6,220
Punjab5,282
Himachal Pradesh3,439
Assam2,555
Tripura1,237
Chandigarh353
Andhra Pradesh304
Meghalaya271
Goa267
Andaman and Nicobar Islands244
Maharashtra166
Sikkim137
Other states340
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

  1. Wiktionary pronunciation: अनूप ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    IPA for the cited written form

  2. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  3. Monier-Williams, anūpa, p. 42,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  4. Behind the Name: Anup ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    meaning

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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