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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Gangappa

Revered Ganga

Gangappa means “Revered Ganga”.

Origin language
Kannada / Sanskrit
First letter
G
Historical records
9,196

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Gangappa mean?

Gangappa attaches the respectful Kannada appa to the sacred river name Ganga. The feminine river deity thus supplies the base of an established masculine personal name.

Spellings in Indian scripts

Kannada

ಗಂಗಪ್ಪ

Conventional spelling

Devanagari

गंगप्पा

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Gangappa in Indian usage

9,196 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Gangappa: records by birth decade1940s: 8931940s1950s: 1,4221950s1960s: 1,7421960s1970s: 2,0231970s1980s: 1,8701980s1990s: 8421990sOther decades: 404Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1940s893
1950s1,422
1960s1,742
1970s2,023
1980s1,870
1990s842
Other decades404

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Karnataka9,196
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, gaṅgā, p. 341,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.