MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Dilip mean?
Dilīpa is a royal name in Rama's ancestral line. The king has a prominent place in the genealogy narrated in the Raghuvamsha.
Pronunciation
IAST: dilīpa
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
दिलीप
Letter-by-letter: dilīpa
Conventional spelling
Other spellings
- Dileep
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Dilip in Indian usage
572,566 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 4,209 records (0.7%).
- Recorded as male: 568,357 records (99.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 784 |
| 1930s | 815 |
| 1940s | 3,042 |
| 1950s | 15,851 |
| 1960s | 63,224 |
| 1970s | 134,576 |
| 1980s | 198,505 |
| 1990s | 155,528 |
| Other decades | 241 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 164,119 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 158,834 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 92,682 |
| Jharkhand | 54,123 |
| Rajasthan | 41,459 |
| Kerala | 13,926 |
| Assam | 13,054 |
| Tripura | 8,766 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 6,971 |
| Delhi | 6,083 |
| Maharashtra | 2,269 |
| Goa | 2,083 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,738 |
| Haryana | 1,247 |
| Meghalaya | 985 |
| Odisha | 799 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 798 |
| Sikkim | 429 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 427 |
| Punjab | 360 |
| Manipur | 283 |
| Nagaland | 254 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 226 |
| Chandigarh | 131 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 131 |
| Daman and Diu | 121 |
| Other states | 268 |
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, dilīpa, p. 478,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.