MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Dropati mean?
The Mahabharata name Draupadi has the vernacular form Dropati. Draupadī means daughter or descendant of Drupada and identifies the Mahabharata heroine married to the Pandavas. Her other name Panchali refers to Panchala, the kingdom of her father.
Pronunciation
IAST: dropatī
Meaning themes
mahabharata
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
द्रोपती
Letter-by-letter: dropatī
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Dropati in Indian usage
59,522 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 59,299 records (99.6%).
- Recorded as male: 223 records (0.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,977 |
| 1940s | 4,635 |
| 1950s | 7,605 |
| 1960s | 11,695 |
| 1970s | 11,803 |
| 1980s | 11,628 |
| 1990s | 9,747 |
| Other decades | 432 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 26,792 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 11,916 |
| Rajasthan | 9,589 |
| Bihar | 5,612 |
| Jharkhand | 2,026 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,499 |
| Haryana | 1,204 |
| Uttarakhand | 719 |
| Other states | 165 |
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