MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Apurva mean?
Apurva joins the negative a with pūrva, “previous or earlier”. The Sanskrit adjective describes something without precedent and extends to what is incomparable or extraordinary. In philosophical writing, apūrva can name an unseen consequence of an action.
Pronunciation
IAST: apūrva
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
अपूर्व
Letter-by-letter: apūrva
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Apurva in Indian usage
11,843 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: 6,004 records (50.7%).
- Recorded as male: 5,839 records (49.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 221 |
| 1970s | 549 |
| 1980s | 3,410 |
| 1990s | 7,535 |
| Other decades | 128 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 4,636 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,510 |
| Rajasthan | 1,407 |
| Bihar | 1,212 |
| Jharkhand | 615 |
| Haryana | 509 |
| Uttarakhand | 442 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 177 |
| Delhi | 141 |
| Other states | 194 |
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, apūrva, p. 56,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.