MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Ganapati mean?
Ganapati joins gana, a group or host, with pati, lord. It is a familiar name of Ganesha, the elephant-headed deity invoked at beginnings. Earlier Vedic usage also applies the title to Brihaspati and Indra.
Pronunciation
IAST: gaṇapati
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गणपति
Letter-by-letter: gaṇapati
Conventional spelling
Tamil
கணபதி
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
ഗണപതി
Conventional spelling
Telugu
గణపతి
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
गनपति
Letter-by-letter: ganapati
1,652 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Ganapati in Indian usage
1,451 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 136 |
| 1970s | 220 |
| 1980s | 556 |
| 1990s | 405 |
| Other decades | 134 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Andhra Pradesh | 1,279 |
| Other states | 172 |
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, gaṇapati, p. 343,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.