MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Gangaram mean?
Gangaram pairs the Ganga river-name with Rama, preserving two cultural name elements. The Ganga member names a river, while Ram is the epic name.
Pronunciation
IAST: gaṅgārāma
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गंगाराम
Letter-by-letter: gaṅgārāma
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Gangaram in Indian usage
100,815 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 477 records (0.5%).
- Recorded as male: 100,338 records (99.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 3,273 |
| 1940s | 10,070 |
| 1950s | 17,213 |
| 1960s | 21,782 |
| 1970s | 19,899 |
| 1980s | 18,500 |
| 1990s | 9,434 |
| Other decades | 644 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 41,342 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 33,836 |
| Rajasthan | 19,100 |
| Bihar | 2,978 |
| Jharkhand | 2,311 |
| Maharashtra | 509 |
| Uttarakhand | 431 |
| Other states | 308 |
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, gaṅgā, p. 341,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, rāmacandra, p. 877,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.