MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Gargi mean?
Gargi is the feminine patronymic derived from Garga. In the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, Gargi Vachaknavi questions Yajnavalkya about the ultimate basis of the world. Sanskrit literature also uses the name for Durga.
Pronunciation
IAST: gārgī
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गार्गी
Letter-by-letter: gārgī
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Gargi in Indian usage
4,002 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (92.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 3,710 records (92.7%).
- Recorded as male: 292 records (7.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 216 |
| 1960s | 358 |
| 1970s | 574 |
| 1980s | 1,257 |
| 1990s | 1,474 |
| Other decades | 123 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,469 |
| Rajasthan | 381 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 221 |
| Bihar | 210 |
| Uttarakhand | 201 |
| Jharkhand | 152 |
| Haryana | 142 |
| Other states | 226 |
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, gārgī, p. 354,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.