MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Dharmapal mean?
Dharmapāla joins dharma, right conduct or teaching, with pāla, protector. Buddhist traditions also use the compound for protective figures associated with the teaching.
Pronunciation
IAST: dharmapāla
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
धर्मपाल
Letter-by-letter: dharmapāla
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Dharmapal in Indian usage
76,864 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 260 records (0.3%).
- Recorded as male: 76,604 records (99.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 923 |
| 1940s | 5,436 |
| 1950s | 11,149 |
| 1960s | 15,904 |
| 1970s | 14,964 |
| 1980s | 17,063 |
| 1990s | 11,321 |
| Other decades | 104 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 41,338 |
| Rajasthan | 15,811 |
| Haryana | 13,028 |
| Uttarakhand | 2,429 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,950 |
| Bihar | 1,579 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 286 |
| Jharkhand | 255 |
| Other states | 188 |
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