MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Ganapat mean?
Ganapat is a shortened vernacular form of Gaṇapati. Gaṇa means a group or troop and pati means lord, together forming an established Ganesha title. Ganesha is the elephant-headed deity invoked at the start of undertakings.
Pronunciation
IAST: gaṇapata
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गणपत
Letter-by-letter: gaṇapata
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
गनपत
Letter-by-letter: ganapata
14,814 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Ganapat in Indian usage
56,544 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 821 records (1.5%).
- Recorded as male: 55,723 records (98.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 2,171 |
| 1940s | 4,874 |
| 1950s | 7,859 |
| 1960s | 10,576 |
| 1970s | 10,732 |
| 1980s | 11,371 |
| 1990s | 8,405 |
| Other decades | 556 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 26,738 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 18,162 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 4,723 |
| Bihar | 2,512 |
| Maharashtra | 1,476 |
| Jharkhand | 1,328 |
| Haryana | 961 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 228 |
| Punjab | 179 |
| Other states | 237 |
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