MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Dharamapal mean?
Dharamapal joins dharam, right conduct or duty, with pal, protector. The compound uses the Punjabi vernacular form of Sanskrit dharma.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
धर्मपाल
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਧਰਮਪਾਲ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Dharamapal in Indian usage
10,931 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (97.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 233 records (2.1%).
- Recorded as male: 10,698 records (97.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 761 |
| 1950s | 1,505 |
| 1960s | 2,517 |
| 1970s | 2,421 |
| 1980s | 2,195 |
| 1990s | 1,325 |
| Other decades | 207 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Punjab | 5,821 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,507 |
| Haryana | 573 |
| Rajasthan | 490 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 267 |
| Uttarakhand | 121 |
| Other states | 152 |
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, dharma, p. 510,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, pāla, p. 622,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.