MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Dip mean?
Dip corresponds to dīp, the lamp or light word of Hindi and Punjabi. Its Sanskrit root dīp concerns blazing or shining.
Pronunciation
IAST: dīpa
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
दीप
Letter-by-letter: dīpa
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਦੀਪ
Conventional spelling
Bengali
দীপ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Dip in Indian usage
80,602 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: 19,820 records (24.6%).
- Recorded as male: 60,782 records (75.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,319 |
| 1940s | 3,433 |
| 1950s | 6,081 |
| 1960s | 9,762 |
| 1970s | 14,193 |
| 1980s | 25,970 |
| 1990s | 19,441 |
| Other decades | 403 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 25,513 |
| Bihar | 12,047 |
| Rajasthan | 6,446 |
| Haryana | 6,365 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 5,646 |
| Punjab | 5,221 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 4,941 |
| Delhi | 4,886 |
| Uttarakhand | 4,449 |
| Jharkhand | 2,224 |
| Assam | 1,190 |
| Maharashtra | 340 |
| Chandigarh | 335 |
| Tripura | 185 |
| Odisha | 154 |
| Meghalaya | 152 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 109 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 105 |
| Other states | 294 |
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, dīpa, p. 481,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.